https://www.simongalperin.com/home daily 1.0 2022-08-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6081ca5972a338275770a152/1619119716376-MSPF769U51BRZ864QGRD/image-asset.jpeg Home - Simon is a journalist, technologist, and organizer working in media and policy to strengthen democracy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6081ca5972a338275770a152/95205d77-3856-4209-85f3-30ba1f8fac52/Simon+Galperin_3.jpg Home Hi! I’m Simon. I work on making public institutions more accountable to the public. Right now, I’m focused on building a community-run public service news organization in Essex County, New Jersey through the Bloomfield Info Project. It’s one of the initiatives of the Community Info Coop, the nonprofit organization I founded to explore new models of public funding and participation in journalism, media, and technology. In 2021, I was awarded a John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University to support this work. More about me below. 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That’s me on top of a 12th-century castle in Jordan built to defend against Crusaders. I was there studying Arabic and Peace and Conflict. One year after that, I attempted a summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. That was right was after studying in Morocco and before traveling by cargo truck around Kenya, camping, and studying ecology and conservation. I had been an EMT and outdoor trip facilitator in preparation for an adventurous journalism career. But like many emerging journalists in the 2010s, it was hard to find good work – so I forged my own path. I've worked on a Senate campaign, been an editor, launched a social justice journalism lab, oversaw U.S. growth for an international technology company, and lead a community engagement startup. In 2016, I received an M.A. in Engaged Journalism from Newark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and was named a top digital media innovator in 2017. In 2018, I was awarded a Reynolds Journalism Fellowship to launch the nonprofit that I lead today. Now I live in Bloomfield, New Jersey with my high school prom date-turned-partner of 13 years and our two cats. I like to exercise, grow my own vegetables, get outdoors, and spend time with good friends.