In his first four years as president, President Trump tried to put journalists in jail, weaken libel laws, ban pesky reporters from the White House, and pressure media owners to back off of critical c...
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.
Events IJF 2025
Despite wide-ranging debate about AI and its impact on journalism, there has been little discussion on the ways that AI technologies can be used to improve the safety of journalists, especially those ...
Media critic Jon Allsop has covered every aspect of journalism in his Media Today newsletter for the Columbia Journalism Review. But in his new book, What is Journalism For?, he grapples with the Big ...
Taken hostage: how journalists should respond to the threat of unlawful detention
Amidst an immensely challenging environment for independent journalism around the world, a new threat has emerged. Increasingly international journalists are being arrested and jailed on false charges...
Around the world, risks to journalists are rising while newsroom budgets are shrinking. Risk assessments are a simple and cost effective strategy that if universalized and incorporated into the assign...
Freedom of the press is considered a fundamental pillar of successful democracies, yet trust in independent media is being eroded by the nefarious application of political power to manipulate public o...
As the war on journalism rages on, the weapons used to attack journalists and undermine free speech are rapidly expanding and evolving. Increasingly, the law is being weaponised around the globe to co...
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...
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...
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