Joel Simon

Founding Director, Journalism Protection Initiative

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 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, Joel served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists.