Randy Shapiro

Randy L. Shapiro has been Global Newsroom Counsel to Bloomberg News since August 2013. She is the senior newsroom lawyer to more than 2,500 journalists around the globe. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Randy was the Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company. 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 on the board (and is chair emeritus) 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 currently serves on the Legal Advisory Committee to the International Center for Journalists. 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.