
Simon Galperin
2018-2019 Reynolds Fellow
Nonresidential fellow
Reynolds Journalism Institute
Founder and Director
Community Information Cooperative
Customer Success Lead
GroundSource
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Website: https://infodistricts.org/
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Member ID: 4197
Group Title: Content providers
Join Date: August 9, 2018
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Last Visit: December 31, 1969
Last Activity: December 31, 1969
Total Entries: 3
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About Simon Galperin
Simon Galperin is the founder and director of Community Information Cooperative, which plans to develop community information districts that would fund community news and information projects through fees shared by community members, similarly to the funding of sanitation and library services.
Galperin is also a customer success lead at GroundSource, an engagement and platform and consultancy that helps news organizations serve their communities through mobile messaging and voice products.
Before coming to GroundSource, he worked as a sales consultant at ProPublica and as the U.S. head of growth at Opinary, a tech startup in Berlin, Germany.
MediaShift named Galperin a top digital innovator in 2017.
He received his master’s degree in social journalism at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism in 2016 and his bachelor’s in journalism and media studies from Rutgers University in 2014. During his time at Rutgers, he launched a news startup called Muckgers. He also helped launch NJ Spark, a social justice journalism lab.
When he’s not busy being a fellow, Galperin enjoys the outdoors, reading books about capitalism and making breakfast food.
He resides in New Jersey with his partner, two cats and a hedgehog.
Simon Galperin is founder and director of the Community Information Cooperative. He is also a 2018–2019 RJI fellow.
Stories about Simon Galperin
How to launch an Info District
June 26, 2019Info District dispatches
Info District dispatch: Missing markets
November 12, 2018Info District dispatches
Info District dispatch: On lobbying
October 24, 2018RJI announces 2018-19 class of fellows
April 10, 2018
Simon Galperin 2018–2019 fellowship project
Simon Galperin, founder and director of the Community Information Cooperative, will address underperforming local news ecosystems by building special taxing zones called community information districts. Info districts let geographic communities design and fund their ideal news and information sources.
Simon Galperin’s 2018–2019 fellowship project
September 4, 2018
Info District dispatches
Info District dispatch: Missing markets
November 12, 2018Info District dispatches
Info District dispatch: On lobbying
October 24, 2018