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Contact

323-650-0060 – this is a landline (voicemail only, no texts). Feel free to call early or late if on deadline. (Email me for my mobile.)

jh@jhandel.com – then follow up with a phone call if on deadline and you haven't heard back in 10 minutes.

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Attribution

Jonathan Handel entertainment/technology attorney at Feig/Finkel and freelance journalist. Please note spelling of first and last name. My last name is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable, i.e., Handel (hear it at LinkedIn).

Headshots

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Expertise

Entertainment law, entertainment business, entertainment and technology, entertainment unions, guilds and labor relations, generative AI, technology law, copyright, trademark, intellectual property, self-driving cars (autonomous vehicles).

Bio

Click here. For a formal bio and a CV, click here.

Media Experience

I've been interviewed or quoted over 1,400 times on/in national, international and local television, radio, newspapers, magazines, podcasts and online outlets, in live, taped and tape-for-live formats, via phoners, Zoom, Skype, Google hangouts, remote crews and in-studio, in lengths ranging from five-second bites to hour-long segments; and including in virtually every major US outlet and most other major English-language outlets, as well as in foreign language outlets.

Reliability

Journalists who interview me come back again and again, sometimes dozens of times, because my quotes and soundbites are well-informed, concise, colorful, contextual, and often visual, humorous, euphonious or surprising. I'm a lawyer and former computer scientist, but I'm also a journalist (formerly Puck.news and The Hollywood Reporter) and I speak in plain English.

Testimonials

  • “I’ve got what I need. I could just lean over and kiss you,” NBC News correspondent.

  • “You’re a soundbite machine,” CBS News producer.

  • “You’re a machine,” Brian Rooney, ABC News correspondent.

  • “You’re a soundbite machine,” ABC News producer.

  • “Brilliant and succinct,” ABC News cameraman.

  • “We love having you on,” Fox 11 news producer.

  • “You always rock the live shots,” KFWB 980 News anchor Phil Hulett.

  • “That was brilliant,” BBC Radio 5 Live producer.

  • “He’s great,” another CBS News producer.

  • “You’re not just looking five moves ahead, you’re playing at another level on another chessboard,” local radio reporter.

  • “You were AMAZING! (as usual),” KABC AM 790 producer.

  • “You’re a great get. I bet there’s such a bidding war to get you right now. Oh my God. You are fantastic!,” LA Magazine video podcast host Gina Grad.

  • “Jonathan Handel is one of those rare, exceptional contacts that a radio reporter loves. He knows his stuff, he’s articulate, he’s interesting, and he understands the deadlines that a reporter works under.” KNX 1070 anchor Vicki Cox.

  • “Such a pro,” KCRW public radio host.

  • “Get Jonathan!” KNX news director to staff (as told by a producer).

  • “Hollywood’s most sensible legal eagle ... reliable, fair-minded and quotable,” Aaron Barnhart, Kansas City Star TV critic.

  • “So many soundbites to choose from,” KABC 7 reporter.

  • “That was excellent!” Spectrum News producer after 12min. live interview

  • “You were fantastic!” another KCRW host.

  • “We love working with you,” KNX producer.

  • “Wait, what? Say that again!” Reuters correspondent.

  • “Always got the inside scoop … and good analysis too,” KNX anchor.

Reel

Examples

Click for a reverse chron list of all media appearances with links (includes television, radio, print, online, podcasts, etc.), or visit the television gallery, radio gallery or logo gallery.