Joel Simon
Contributor
Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. Previously, he served as the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). Simon is the author of four books, including most recently The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less Free, co-authored with Robert Mahoney. He writes on press freedom issues for The New Yorker and produces a regular column for The Columbia Journalism Review.
Simon started his career in the 1990s as a journalist covering the Guatemalan conflict. He also reported from El Salvador, Cuba, and for a full decade, Mexico, where he covered the Zapatista uprising and the assassination of the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio.
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