Apr 17
Breakfast with Convo Speaker Joel Simon
Fri, April 17, 2026
• 8:30am
- 9:30am (1h) • Hasenstab Hall 002
Stop by for breakfast and conversation about journalism and media freedom advocacy. Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in New York City. He served as a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and Senior Visiting Fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute also at Columbia. In 2015, Joel published his second book, The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom. His third book, We Want to Negotiate The Secret World of Kidnapping, Hostages and Ransom, examines the ethics of paying ransom to terrorist groups. It was inspired by the kidnapping and murder of James Foley and other journalists by Islamic State militants in Syria. His latest book, co-authored with Robert Mahoney, is The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies Made the World Sicker and Less.
from Public Policy
Event Contact: Julie Buchwald