If life had gone a little differently for newly minted NPR general counsel Jonathan Hart, he might have ended up as a reporter with a legally focused publication like Corporate Counsel. He went to law school at Stanford expecting to become a legal journalist after graduation, but a class he took in media law moved him in another direction.

“That course changed my view of what I was going to do when I got out of law school, and I set my sights on being a lawyer who represented journalists,” he told CorpCounsel.com.