Meghann Cuniff

Meghann Cuniff (born 1983) is an American legal affairs journalist. She has written for publications including Law.com, and gained prominence for her coverage of Tory Lanez' conviction, for which she received an award from the Los Angeles Press Club. As an independent journalist she publishes work on her website Legal Affairs and Trials.

Career Cuniff's first professional journalism job was as an education reporter in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho for the Spokesman-Review before moving on to be a crime reporter for the outlet in Spokane, Washington. In 2013 Cuniff took a position at the Orange County Register. and then at Law.com.

She gained prominence while reporting on the trial of Tory Lanez, who was convicted for shooting Megan Thee Stallion, which was the most highly publicized case she had ever covered. Her Twitter threads about the case regularly went viral and grew her social media following. She claims that her goal with her social media threads is to help people understand complicated court cases. The majority of her legal coverage centers federal white-collar crime cases. First place – Orange County Press Club Award for Best Pandemic News Story, Los Angeles Times (for “Defending trial ban, federal judge says O.C. state courts aren’t tracking coronavirus infections”)

2023 First place – Orange County Press Club Award for Best Use of Social Media, Law & Crime (for coverage of Cardi B’s federal civil trial in Orange County) First place – Los Angeles Press Club, Southern California Journalism Award for Best Use of Social Media to Enhance and/or Cover a Story by an Independent Journalist, Legal Affairs and Trials with Meghann Cuniff (for "Police and judges behaving badly”) First place – Los Angeles Press Club, Southern California Journalism Award for Best Use of Social Media to Enhance and/or Cover a Story by an Independent Journalist, LegalAffairsAndTrials.com (for “Twitter/X coverage of Tory Lanez's sentencing for shooting Megan Thee Stallion”)