Adam Klasfeld is an American journalist with a current focus on legal matters. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of All Rise News, and also regularly contributes to a variety of other news outlets. Klasfeld was previously a playwright, and has written and directed several plays. [1]
Klasfeld studied theatre at Rutgers University and followed up on his studies at the Academy of Theatre in London under Richard Digby Day. [2]
As a courtroom reporter, Klasfeld covered the trial of Iranian businessman Reza Zarrab, who circumvented the US sanction regime on Iran. [3] He also reported on a similar case in which Halkbank, a Turkish state owned bank, was accused of circumventing the US sanctions against Iran. [4] Access to an article he wrote about Zarrab was banned by a court in Istanbul on the 23 September 2020; [5] He was also accused by the Turkish newspaper Daily Sabah of being a complicit of the so-called terrorist organization FETÖ, the movement of Fethullah Gülen. [6] [7]
Other legal events Klasfeld has covered in his reporting for Courthouse News Service, [8] Law and Crime, [9] Just Security, [10] MSNBC, [11] All Rise News, [12] and Brian Tyler Cohen [13] include the first impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump, the trial of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, the Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York, the E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump defamation lawsuits, and the 2025 Trump libel lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal.
His acting career began early at the Rutgers Cabaret, and thereafter he performed on several stages in the United States and Europe. [2] He was often involved with the theater company called One Armed Man. [14] In July 2009, his play The Report of My Death was performed on board a ship on the Hudson River, New York. [15] He also organized a theater festival at the Brecht Forum.