Adam Rose is secretary of the Los Angeles Press Club and chairs the press rights committee. Journalists facing access issues or with other concerns should email pressrights [at] lapressclub.org or contact Adam on Bluesky or LinkedIn. He can provide both Signal and PGP contacts if needed for privacy and security.
Adam has over 20 years of experience as a journalist and editor for various media organizations, including LAist, Los Angeles Times, HuffPost, and CBS/Paramount. An Emmy-nominated producer (National News Emmys), his work has won a National Magazine Award (American Society of Magazine Editors) and multiple Best of Photojournalism Awards (National Press Photographers Association).
He is the deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation and also on the advocacy advisory council for the Radio Television Digital News Association. He successfully lobbied for a California law which prohibits police from arresting or intentionally interfering with journalists as they cover protests. His efforts to protect press from police violence have resulted in federal court orders against both the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Los Angeles Police Department. His advocacy earned the Sí Se Puede Award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and two Webby Award nominations for Public Service & Activism.
Adam is a fellow at Starling Lab, an academic research program based jointly at Stanford and USC. He previously served as COO of the lab, working to authenticate digital evidence and preserve cultural archives. In that position, he collaborated on investigations with a variety of local, national and international news outlets. One of those projects, a war crimes investigation, led prosecutors to re-open a 30-year-old cold case.