Global Affairs Correspondent, News Anchor, Producer and Consultant
Feature Story News is celebrating its 20th anniversary throughout 2012. For two decades, the company Simon co-founded in 1992 has supplied award-winning material to many of the world’s leading television networks, radio stations and websites. Today, with news bureaus in Washington DC, New York, Orlando, San Francisco, London, Brussels and Moscow, FSN is the [...]
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On February 13 2012, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began an historic visit to Washington DC. The man widely expected to be China’s next President arrived for a four-day, cross-country tour of the United States that included stops at the White House, the Pentagon, in small-town Iowa and big-city Los Angeles……
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On December 16, 2011 the journalist and writer Christopher Hitchens died at the age of 62. A self-styled “contrarian”, he was best known for a series of books questioning public figures including Bill Clinton, Mother Theresa, and the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Generally considered a liberal, he dismayed many of his readers [...]
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On February 13 2012, Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping began an historic visit to Washington DC. The man widely expected to be China's next President arrived for a four-day, cross-country tour of the United States that included stops at the White House, the Pentagon, in small-town Iowa and big-city Los Angeles......
On January 30 2012, President Barack Obama made a little history at the White House. He took part in the first-ever, completely “virtual” interview – a Google+/YouTube project that Simon produced along with the team at Feature Story News. The President was questioned directly by members of the public about a range of issues, including the...
It’s hard to imagine now, but back in the early 1970s, if you wanted to listen to radio in the UK your choices were limited to the 4 national networks offered by the BBC and a handful of BBC local radio stations in key British localities. If you liked your radio a little less “formal”, you might listen to external commercial broadcasters like...
On Sunday December 18 2011, North Korean state media announced the sudden death of the country's "Dear Leader", Kim Jong Il. The demise of the country's reclusive and mercurial leader took world powers by surprise......
On December 18, 2011 the last US forces based in Iraq made their final departure from the country - nearly 9 years after former President George W. Bush ordered the country's invasion and subsequent occupation.....
Over the years, Simon has interviewed many of the world’s leading newsmakers, including US President George W. Bush, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, South African President Thabo Mbeki and (at the time) Russian President Vladimir Putin. Simon’s interview with President Putin took place in July 2002, and was seen on Fox News Channel, and heard on [...]
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The former Czech President, playwright and poet Vaclav Havel died on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75. He’d been in ill-health for several years. A prominent dissident who at one point spent 5 years in jail for his beliefs, he led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that saw Soviet dominance of Czechoslovakia come to end, [...]
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