Joel Simon

Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, part of the City University of New York. He is the author of four books, including The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media and Media Freedom and most recently The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free, co-authored with Robert Mahoney. He writes regularly on press freedom issues for The New Yorker and produces a column for Columbia Journalism Review. From 2006 until 2021, Simon served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. His work defending press freedom was featured in the HBO documentary Endangered, which was nominated for an Emmy.