🎙Episode #017: Mark Joseph Stern (Legal Journalist at Slate)

👋🏻 Greetings from Washington, D.C. to all 373 of you on the podcast e-mail list. As my five-year old daughter said to me while we were on a hike this weekend: “I think spring has finally sprung.” I hope so, I hope so!

In this week’s episode, I speak with Mark Joseph Stern who is a legal analyst and the Supreme Court Correspondent for Slate magazine. He is also the author of the book, American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives. Mark is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Georgetown University Law Center. His writing is available at slate.com and @mjs_DC on Twitter.

I learned a ton from our conversation—about law, about writing, and about the media. I think you will too.

Specifically, we discussed his path to legal journalism, the similarities and differences between writing as a lawyer and writing as a journalist, how he learns and writes about complex legal topics for non-legal audiences, the role of social media for lawyers and legal journalists—and how legal journalists can amplify otherwise forgotten legal stories using these media. It was a really fun and rewarding conversation. I hope you’ll take a few minutes this week to listen.

See you next week,

Jonah