Golden Globes shout-out boosts the profile of journalism advocacy groups

Joel Simon was on the phone catching up with his dad nearly two years ago while his wife and kids watched the Golden Globes. Meryl Streep was accepting the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime honor, and when Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, heard Streep say, "We need the principled press to hold power to account," he told his dad he'd have to call him back.

Simon walked into the living room just as Streep called on the "famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign Press," the group that doles out the Globes, and