Biography
Randy L. Shapiro has been Global Newsroom Counsel to Bloomberg News since August 2013. She is the senior newsroom lawyer to more than 2400 journalists around the globe and is responsible for newsgathering advice and prepublication review, overseeing FOIA and access efforts, and newsroom legal training worldwide. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Randy was the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company, the product of a 2010 merger between Newsweek magazine and The Daily Beast website. There, she had oversight of all legal matters including: prepublication review of editorial content; libel and privacy advice and training; copyright analysis, licensing and protection; global labor and employment counseling; contracts; and trademark and domain name registrations. Prior to joining Newsweek in 1998, Randy was a commercial litigator with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, where she was a member of the team representing The New York Post, as well as the associate liaison to the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.
Randy is the chairperson of the board of the Media Law Resource Center, a non-profit membership association for content providers in all media (and their defense lawyers), providing a wide range of resources on media and content law and policy issues. She also has served as co-chair of the Mentoring Committee of the New York Women’s Bar Association, and the chair of the Defamation and Privacy Subcommittee of the New York City Bar Association's Communications and Media Law Committee.