Jennifer A. Borg

Jennifer is a Floyd Abrams Fellow, Clinical Lecturer and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. Jennifer Borg is the former general counsel, vice president and corporate secretary of North Jersey Media Group Inc. The company published more than 50 newspapers and magazines – including the award-winning daily newspaper, The Record – as well as the news website, NorthJersey.com. The Record was owned by the Borg family for over 80 years and was recently sold to Gannett Satellite Information Network LLC.

Jennifer is a fierce advocate of open and transparent government. She has successfully litigated many cases under New Jersey’s Open Public Records Act (“OPRA”), has testified before the New Jersey legislature on behalf of amendments to OPRA and was key in helping The Record in its award-winning breaking news coverage of “Bridgegate.” Jennifer represented The New York Times and NPR in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems against defendant Fox News Network and Fox Corporation, and has also represented The Associated Press.

Jennifer is a cofounder of the Women’s Foundation of New Jersey f/k/a North Jersey Media Group Foundation, which she founded in 2002. Jennifer currently serves as a trustee of the New Jersey Foundation for Open Government.

Jennifer has specific experience with the following:

• Advising reporters with news gathering issues, pre-publication review of stories and defamation;
• Advising documentary filmmakers regarding news gathering issues, use of drones and rough-cut review of films;
• Representing the press and photographers with access rights to trials and hearings including the right to record trials;
• Assisting media organizations with access to court records and court proceedings;
• Drafting FOIA requests and FOIA litigation;
• Representing media and non-media clients in defamation and invasion of privacy cases; and
• Accessing public records and court records.
• Defending media organizations in libel & defamation lawsuits

Jennifer is proud of the results she has achieved for clients, some of which are noted here and under the “Experience” section of this biography. Of course, each legal matter is unique on many levels, and past successes are not a guarantee of results in any other pending or future matters.

Honors & Recognitions

• American Civil Liberties Union, Legal Leadership Award, 2017
• American Bar Association Journal, Record’s aggressive efforts to gain access to public records in “BridgeGate”
• PolitickerNJ, “Power” List, 2015
• Senate Majority Leader Weinberg’s, “Power” List, 2013-2014
• NJBiz, General Counsel of the Year Award, 2013

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Community & Professional

• Member of the Board, New Jersey Foundation for Open Government
• Member of the Board, Women's Foundation of New Jersey, Inc.
• Former Member of the Board, Table to Table
• Former Member of the Board, First Amendment Museum (Augusta, Maine)
• Former Member of the Board, East Hampton Historical Society (New York)
• Former Member of the Board, Hackensack University Medical Center (HUMC)
• Former Member of the Board, HUMC Foundation
• Former Member of the Board, Program for Parents Inc.
• Former Member of the Board, Urban League for Bergen County
• Former Member of the Board, The Dwight Englewood School
• Former Member of the Board, Marilyn Horne Foundation
• Former Member of the Board of Governors, The Hotchkiss School
• Founding Member, Women United in Philanthropy
• Founder and President, North Jersey Media Group Foundation
• Former Chair, President, and Member of the Board, New Jersey Press Association (NJPA), and NJPA Foundation
• Member, D.C. Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
• Member, New York City Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar
• Member, Bergen County and Passaic County Bars
• Member, Women Lawyers in Bergen
• Member, New Jersey Women’s Lawyers Association