Joel Simon

About Joel Simon

Joel Simon is executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists and is a regular contributor to Slate. He is the author of “The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom.”

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What’s the Difference Between Activism and Journalism?

By Joel Simon• Books• December 11, 2014

At a March 2013 meeting in Doha, Qatar, in which press freedom activists gathered to develop a strategy for responding to the violence in Syria, a heated discussion broke out about what constitutes journalism in an environment in which … Read more