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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 ...
Joel Simon has worked tirelessly as a champion of press freedom around the world. For 15 years between 2006 and 2021, he served as the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). He traveled the world defending the rights of journalists, effectively saving lives and getting innumerable people out of harm’s way.
Joel Simon is the director of the Journalism Protection Initiative and a former executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written three books on press freedom, media ethics and global conflicts.
Dec 29, 2021 · Joel Simon: When I started at CPJ in 1997, it was a period of profound optimism, about democracy, about human rights, about press freedom. After all, journalists played a critical role in the ...
Jul 26, 2021 · Joel Simon is a former executive director of CPJ and a media freedom advocate. He has written on censorship, surveillance, and journalism issues for various publications and platforms.
Jan 10, 2023 · Joel Simon, former executive director of CPJ, will join the Newmark J-School as the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative. The initiative will research and address the threats to journalism and journalists in the U.S. and worldwide.
Joel Simon's testimony on behalf of the Committee to Protect Journalists, which has tracked impunity for attacks on the press since 1992.
