The law plays a key role in protecting freedom of speech. However, at the same time, laws ranging from anti-terrorism to criminal defamation and cybercrime are increasingly being used to silence journ...
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 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, Joel served as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. During 2022, he was Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute, also at Columbia.
The role of journalism as a check on power is being tested all over the world, even in counties that have traditionally enjoyed a high degree of press freedom. In this panel, we’ll speak to those on...