Joel Simon
Guest Contributor
Joel Simon is the Director of the Journalism Protection Initiative at the Craig Newmark School of Journalism at the City University of New York. For 15 years between 2006 and 2021, he served as the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Ethics and Diversity | Everyday Ethics
Guest Column: Is An On-The-Record Interview a Sign of Journalistic Virtue? I’m Not So Sure.
When I started in journalism in the mid-1980s I was given a diktat. Never share a quote in advance with an interview subject. I never did.