Adam Liptak | |
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| Born | (1960-09-02)September 2, 1960 (age 65) Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Education | Yale University (BA,JD) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 2002–present |
Adam Liptak (born September 2, 1960) is an American journalist, lawyer and instructor in law and journalism.[1] He is the Supreme Court correspondent forThe New York Times.
Liptak has written forThe New Yorker,Vanity Fair,Rolling Stone,The New York Observer,Business Week and other publications.[1] He was a finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 2009 for a series of articles that examined ways in which theAmerican legal system differs from those of other developed nations.[2]
Liptak was born inStamford, Connecticut. He first joinedThe New York Times as a copyboy in 1984 after graduatingcum laude fromYale University, where he was an editor of theYale Daily News, with a degree in English.[3] In addition to clerical work and fetching coffee, he assisted the reporterM. A. Farber in covering the trial of alibel suit brought by GeneralWilliam Westmoreland againstCBS.[1]
He returned to Yale for aJ.D. degree, graduating fromYale Law School in 1988. During law school, Liptak worked as a summer clerk inThe New York Times Company's legal department. After graduating, he spent four years atCahill Gordon & Reindel, a New York City law firm, as a litigation associate specializing inFirst Amendment matters.[1]
In 1992, he returned to The New York Times Company's legal department. Liptak spent a decade advisingThe New York Times and the company's other newspapers, television stations and new media properties on defamation, privacy, news gathering and related issues and frequently litigated media and commercial cases.[1]
Liptak joinedThe New York Times news staff in 2002 as its national legal correspondent. He covered the Supreme Court nominations ofJohn Roberts andSamuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity ofValerie Plame, an undercoverCentral Intelligence Agency operative; the trial ofJohn Lee Malvo, one of the Washington-area snipers; judicial ethics; and various aspects of the criminal justice system,[4] including capital punishment.[5] He inaugurated theSidebar column in January 2007. The column covers and considers developments in the law.[1]
In 2005, he examined the rise in life sentences in the U.S. in a three-part series.[6] The next year, Liptak and two colleagues studied connections between contributions to the campaigns of justices on theOhio Supreme Court and those justices' voting records.[7] He was a member of the teams that examined the reporting ofJayson Blair andJudith Miller atThe New York Times, in 2003 and 2005, respectively.[8][9]
He began covering the Supreme Court in 2008. He followed Linda Greenhouse, who had covered the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years.[1]
Liptak has served as the chairman of theNew York City Bar Association’s communications and media law committee and was a member of the board of the Media Law Resource Center.[5]
He has taught courses on media law and the Supreme Court atColumbia University Graduate School of Journalism,UCLA School of Law,University of Chicago Law School,[10] University of Southern California'sGould School of Law, and Yale Law School.[11]
Liptak's work has appeared inThe New Yorker,[12]Vanity Fair,[1]Rolling Stone,[1]The New York Observer,[13]Business Week, andThe American Lawyer.[14] He has written several law review articles on First Amendment topics.[1] Liptak was also featured inThe Harvard Crimson's 2014 commencement issue with his column entitled "Please Calculate Badly."[15] In 2013, he published an e-book,To Have and Uphold: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage.[16]
In 1995,Presstime magazine named him one of 20 leading newspaper professionals under the age of 40.[5] In 1999, he received theNew York Press Club'sJohn Peter Zenger award for "defending and advancing the cause of a free press".[17] In 2006, the same group awarded him its Crystal Gavel award for his journalistic work.[18]
He was a finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2009,[19] and he won the 2010Scripps HowardRaymond Clapper Award for Washington Reporting for a five-part series on the Roberts Court.[20]
Stetson University awarded Liptak an honorary doctor of laws degree in 2014,[21] andHofstra University presented him with its Presidential Medal in 2008.[22] He is a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[23]
Liptak lives inWashington, D.C., with his wife, Jennifer Bitman, a veterinarian, and their children, Katie and Ivan.[1]
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