Seth Stern is the Chief of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF), where he and the advocacy team collaborate with a broad range of partners — from independent bloggers and incarcerated journalists to major national news outlets and civil liberties organizations — to promote laws and policies that allow public-interest journalism to thrive. Before joining FPF, he practiced media and First Amendment law for 13 years at the Chicago firm Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn (FVLD), where he remains Of Counsel. A former newspaper reporter and editor, he is a prolific writer and commentator on press freedom whose work has appeared in The Guardian, The Intercept, Rolling Stone, and Columbia Journalism Review, as well as local newspapers in his hometown of Chicago and around the country.