Coming into Focus: Press Freedom Under Trump

Coming into Focus: Press Freedom Under Trump

Joel Simon, Executive Director of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), will discuss the organization’s global advocacy work and the United States changing press freedom environment.


Thursday

Apr 6, 2017 | 3pm

Joel Simon, Executive Director of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), will discuss the organization’s global advocacy work and the United States changing press freedom environment.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes #PressFreedom worldwide. 

JOEL SIMON is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has written widely on media issues, contributing to Slate,Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, World Policy Journal, Asahi Shimbun, and The Times of India. He has led numerous international missions to advance press freedom. His book, The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom, was published in November 2014.