# Event Details - **Event Name**: Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Series featuring Joel Simon - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm – Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm - **Event Description**: Please join us for an evening with celebrated author and journalist, Joel Simon at LACC inside Holmes Hall 6 (Dr Ronald Levant Lecture Hall)About this EventOn December 9th, 2025, Join us for an amazing evening with decorated journalist and author, Joel Simon, inside Holmes Hall 6 (Dr Ronald Levant Lecture Hall) on LACC's campus!Joel Simon has worked tirelessly as a champion of press freedom around the world.For 15 years between 2006 and 2021, he served as the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). He traveled the world defending the rights of journalists, effectively saving lives and getting innumerable people out of harm’s way.Simon helped establish CPJ’s Emergencies Department, which provides safety information and direct support for journalists under threat, including placement for at-risk journalists at leading journalism schools, the Newmark J-School among them. For the last year, Simon has been a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University and a senior visiting fellow at the Knight First Amendment Institute, also at Columbia.Simon is the author of four books, including most recently , co-authored with Robert Mahoney. He writes on press freedom issues for The New Yorker and produces a regular column for Columbia Journalism Review.A Brooklyn native and fluent Spanish speaker, Simon started his career in the 1990s as a journalist covering the Guatemalan conflict. He also reported from El Salvador, Cuba, and for a full decade, Mexico, where he covered the Zapatista uprising and the assassination of the presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio. His first book, from 1998, Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge, was named one of the 100 best books of the year by the LA Times.Highlights of the event include: Engaging Q&A session, book signing opportunity with Joel Simon, and free books (limited quantity) for students. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/los-angeles/nick-beck-investigative-journalism-series-featuring-joel-simon/100001849279267069 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 33.85, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Los Angeles - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Los Angeles City College - **lat**: 34.0872692 - **long**: -118.2924734 - **full address**: Los Angeles City College, 855 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Series featuring Joel Simon - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/2f3192694c5e60994057c2e5b0668f5520c2e4f4ff44519fb9bbd76e5ed829d6-rimg-w1200-h600-dc0f3f5d-gmir.jpg?v=1762147545 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Series featuring Joel Simon being held? - **A:** Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Series featuring Joel Simon takes place on Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 05:00 pm to Tue, 09 Dec, 2025 at 06:30 pm at Los Angeles City College, 855 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Series featuring Joel Simon? - **A:** Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Series featuring Joel Simon is organized by LACC Foundation. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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