It's the six-month anniversary of Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff!
With paid subscriptions from my readers, www.legalaffairsandtrials.com will take you inside the biggest trials and bring you exclusive news about the judiciary.
Six months ago, I started a weekly newsletter as a way to share my work and grow a mailing list for my legal affairs journalism. The newsletter soon gave way to a regular publishing platform that became Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff.
The work you’ve seen in the last few months is only the beginning. I took you inside Los Angeles politician Mark Ridley-Thomas’ corruption trial, and Masimo Corp.’s billion-dollar trade secrets trial against Apple Inc., and I’ve explained the ins and outs of celebrity criminal cases and reported news about our judiciary that you can’t find anywhere else.
With your help, my website can become a sustainable platform for my reporting from courtrooms in Southern California. I want to continue bringing exclusive, in-depth articles about cases in Los Angeles and Orange County no one else knows about or no one can cover like I can.
To ensure my success, I’m asking you to consider upgrading to a paid subscription to my mailing list, if you haven’t already. Substack is proving to be a sustainable platform for many journalists in a time of not only corporate cost cutting, but corporate censorship, and it’s because it puts our salaries in your hands.
Through a paid subscription, you are funding journalism that cuts through the press releases, puffery and self promotion that dominates the legal industry. You are funding real news about major cases, prominent lawyers and powerful judges. And you are funding a dedicated journalist who started woking as a professional newspaper reporter in 2005 at 22 years old and will always stay true to old-school ethics and reporting practices.
By paying for a subscription, you are helping pay for the quality reporting that is the hallmark of every article I publish. As my audience continues to grow, paid subscribers will have exclusive access to court documents, archived articles and a comments sections that will become a discussion hub for the legal community in and around Los Angeles. You can weigh in on what I should and shouldn’t be covering, and you can access new articles that will be available only to paid subscribers.
This is an independent effort, but I’m not doing it alone. I’m thankful for the advice of two prominent journalists on Substack: John Canzanoof Bald Faced Truth by John Canzanoand Tony Ortegaof The Underground Bunker. Their work shows what’s possible with Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff, and their advice on how to get there has been not only helpful but inspiring. Thank you, John and Tony.
I have more than 2,500 free subscribers, and the list is quickly growing. My goal is to get 100 new paid subscribers in the next four weeks. Will you be one? You can buy a yearly subscription for $80, or you can pay $8 a month. You also have the option of an MVP subscription to show your support.
Substack offers secure payment options through the website. But if you’d rather pay through Zelle, Venmo or CashApp, we can work that out, too. Email me at meghanncuniff@gmail.com.
Thank you for your support, and thank you for reading my work. Look for an exclusive blockbuster article soon about the criminal case of rapper Tory Lanez for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, as well as on-the-ground coverage of next week’s California State Bar disciplinary hearing in Los Angeles for former President Donald Trump’s lawyer John Eastman.
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