Victoria Baranetsky

  • General Counsel
  • The Center for Investigative Reporting

Victoria Baranetsky is general counsel at The Center for Investigative Reporting. Before joining CIR, Baranetsky was the first attorney on the West Coast for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She previously worked as legal counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation and also served as the First Amendment fellow at The New York Times. Baranetsky clerked for the Honorable Rosemary Pooler of the Second Circuit after graduating from Harvard Law School. She also holds a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University and a bachelor's degree from Columbia University and is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School. Currently, Baranetsky is an affiliate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.

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