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Ian Rosenberg is an author, teacher and Assistant Chief Counsel for ABC News. His book, “The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms” was released in February 2021.

Rosenberg has more than twenty years of experience as a media lawyer and has worked as legal counsel for ABC News since 2003. He graduated with distinction from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and magna cum laude from Cornell Law School. Rosenberg began his legal career clerking for a United States district court judge in the Eastern District of New York, and then working as a litigation associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel. He is also an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker and teaches media law at Brooklyn College. He lives in New York City with his wife, Caroline Laskow, and their two children.