Multimedia journalist

with a background in law,

based in New York City.

Hi there!

My name is Min Ji Koo, and I usually go by MJ. 

I'm a legal journalist who speaks three languages — English, Korean and Japanese. Currently, I work as a news apprentice at Law360, focusing on providing pitches for assignment editors and writing legal business stories for industry experts. My job involves perusing hundreds of legal dockets, quickly researching additional information sources and breaking complex cases down into digestible styles.

Before joining Law360, I took a key role in Vice audio’s documentary project “Authentic: The Story of Tablo,” which won Second Place for Best Arts or Entertainment Podcast at the Los Angeles Press Club 15th National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards.

Image: Authentic: The Story of Tablo

This audio documentary is the story of fake news before fake news had a name, and you can listen to how a conspiracy theory accusing Korean rapper Tablo of faking his Stanford diploma made its way to the mainstream in South Korea in the early 2010s.

As the only person with knowledge of Korean and U.S. law in the newsroom, I also wrote breaking news and enterprise stories for Vice APAC over international politics and national policies across two Koreas, Japan and the United States.