Executive Director, Committee to Protect Journalists
Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an organization that defends press freedom and the rights of journalists worldwide. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, The Washington Post and many others. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. He is the author of three books: We Want to Negotiate: The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages, and Ransom (Columbia Global Reports, 2019); The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom (Columbia University Press, 2014), and Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge (Sierra Club Books, 1997).
Human Rights • International Justice • Peace • Peace and Human Rights
Caribbean, Central America, Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and Southern Africa, Eastern Asia, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, North America, Oceania, South America, Southeast Asia
