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Journalist Joel Simon served as the organization's executive director between 2006 and 2021; he had previously served as deputy director since 2000, and as CPJ's Americas program coordinator since 1997. In January 2022, the organization announced that journalist and advocate Jodie Ginsberg will head the organization starting April 2022.
Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He has covered conflicts, censorship and media freedom issues in Latin America, the Middle East and beyond.
Nov 9, 2011 · Joel Simon is the former executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide. He has also written extensively on media issues for various publications and led international missions to advance press freedom.
Jul 26, 2021 · Joel Simon was the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 2006 to 2021. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His...
Jun 9, 2021 · By Katie Robertson. June 9, 2021. After 15 years as the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon said on Wednesday that he would step down by the end of the year ...
Aug 28, 2020 · Joel Simon is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and the author of books including We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom
Nov 17, 2020 · Joel Simon was the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 2006 to 2021. His writing on media issues has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian. and The Wall Street Journal, and he is a regular columnist for Columbia Journalism Review. Under his leadership, CPJ was honored with the Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International...
