FORA.tv Speaker - David McCraw

David McCraw is Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of The New York Times Company, where he is responsible for newsroom legal affairs and serves as lead legal counsel for The Times' freedom-of-information litigation. He was previously Deputy General Counsel at the New York Daily News. Prior to that, he was an associate at the New York offices of Rogers & Wells and Clifford Chance and a clerk for Judge Richard Simons at the New York Court of Appeals. Mr. McCraw has served as a consultant to the drafters of freedom-of-information laws in Yemen and Kuwait and has conducted workshops on press freedom issues in various countries in the Middle East, South America, and Eastern Europe. He was honored in 2010 by the New York City Bar Association for his international pro bono work.