Jeff Kosseff

Kosseff graduated from the University of Michigan with bachelor's and master's degrees. He received a doctorate of jurisprudence from Georgetown University Law Center.

As a journalist, Kosseff started working for The Oregonian in 2001 covering technology, and worked from its Washington, D.C. bureau from 2004 through 2008.{{cite news |title=Oregon and National Politics: About The Oregonian's Politics Team |publisher=oregon live |url=http://blog.oregonlive.com/politics/about.html |url-status=dead |accessdate=8 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924124714/http://blog.oregonlive.com/politics/about.html |archive-date=24 September 2012}} He won the George Polk Award in 2006 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2007.{{cite news |date=16 April 2007 |title=2007 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/business/media/16pulitzers.html}}{{cite web |title=The Pulitzer Prizes |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/citation/2007-National-Reporting}}

Kosseff clerked for Judge Milan Smith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Leonie Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

He currently teaches, researches, and writes about cybersecurity law at the United States Naval Academy, where he is an associate professor in the Cyber Science department.{{Cite web |title=Jeff Kosseff |url=https://www.usna.edu/CyberCenter/People/Biographies/Kosseffbio.php |access-date=2022-10-31 |website=United States Naval Academy |language=en}}

Previously, as a lawyer at Covington & Burling LLP, he represented media and technology companies in a wide range of First Amendment and privacy issues. Among his representative matters, he advocated for federal shield law for journalists on behalf of a coalition of more than 70 media organizations.{{cite web|title=AP Scandal Demonstrates Need for Federal Shield Law to Protect Reporters—Jeff Kosseff|url=http://www.lxbn.com/2013/05/20/ap-scandal-demonstrates-need-for-federal-shield-law-to-protect-reporters-jeff-kosseff/|publisher=LXBN|access-date=2014-05-18|archive-date=2013-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615053054/http://www.lxbn.com/2013/05/20/ap-scandal-demonstrates-need-for-federal-shield-law-to-protect-reporters-jeff-kosseff/|url-status=dead}} He frequently writes and speaks about the First Amendment and privacy law.{{cite web|last=Kosseff|first=Jeff|title=Defending Section 230: The Value of Intermediary Immunity|url=https://www.scribd.com/doc/58086481/Jeff-Kosseff-Defending-Section-230-The-Value-of-Intermediary-Immunity|publisher=Journal of Technology, Law, & Policy|access-date=2017-09-09|archive-date=2012-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120422131347/http://www.scribd.com/doc/58086481/Jeff-Kosseff-Defending-Section-230-The-Value-of-Intermediary-Immunity|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Privacy Perspectives: Jeff Kosseff|url=https://www.privacyassociation.org/privacy_perspectives/contributors/kosseff_jeff}}{{cite web|last=Kosseff|first=Jeff|title=Do We Have a Right to Online Anonymity?|url=http://www.rcfp.org/browse-media-law-resources/news-media-law/news-media-and-law-winter-2014/do-we-have-right-online-ano}}{{cite web|title=IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2014|url=https://www.privacyassociation.org/events_and_programs/global_privacy_summit_2014/preconference_workshops_s14}}{{cite web|last=Kosseff|first=Jeff|title=Public or Private, Eliminating the Gertz Defamation Test|url=http://illinoisjltp.com/journal/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Kosseff.pdf|publisher=Journal of Law, Technology, & Policy}} The Information & Privacy Commissioner of Ontario has named Kosseff a Privacy by Design Ambassador.{{cite web|title=Jeff Kosseff: Privacy by Design |url=http://www.privacybydesign.ca/index.php/ambassador/jeff-kosseff/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140518023208/http://www.privacybydesign.ca/index.php/ambassador/jeff-kosseff/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2014-05-18 }} Kosseff is an adjunct professor of communications law at American University's School of Communications,{{cite web|title=American University: Meet the Faculty|url=http://www.american.edu/soc/journalism/degrees/meet-the-faculty.cfm}} and he serves on the board of directors of the Writer's Center in Bethesda and Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma in Washington, D.C.{{cite web|title=The Writer's Center Board of Directors|url=http://www.writer.org/page.aspx?pid=595|access-date=2014-05-18|archive-date=2014-05-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518070023/http://www.writer.org/page.aspx?pid=595|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Jeff Kosseff: Covington & Burling|url=http://www.cov.com/jkosseff}}

He lives with his wife and daughter in the Washington, D.C. area.{{cite web |date=2014-04-02 |title=Former Town Crier Interns Send Greetings from Washington, D.C. |url=http://m.mackinacislandnews.com/news/2014-04-12/News/Former_Town_Crier_Interns_Send_Greetings_from_Wash.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171109080903/http://m.mackinacislandnews.com/news/2014-04-12/News/Former_Town_Crier_Interns_Send_Greetings_from_Wash.html#.WgQNI5DP1t8 |archive-date=2017-11-09 |website=Mackinac Island Town Crier}}

• {{cite book | title = The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet | first = Jeff | last = Kosseff | authorlink = Jeff Kosseff | year = 2019 | publisher = Cornell University Press | isbn = 978-1501735783 }}
• {{cite book | title = The United States of Anonymous: How the First Amendment Shaped Online Speech | first = Jeff | last = Kosseff | authorlink = Jeff Kosseff | year = 2022 | publisher = Cornell University Press | isbn = 978-1501762383 }}
• Kosseff, J. (2023). Liar in a crowded theater: Freedom of speech in a world of misinformation. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421447322.

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• [https://www.privacyassociation.org/privacy_perspectives/contributors/kosseff_jeff International Association of Privacy Professionals -- Jeff Kosseff]
• [http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowldc/newspapers/jeff_kosseff_the_fishbowldc_interview_57193.asp "Jeff Kosseff: The FishbowlDC Interview"], April 19, 2007

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