Baghdad - March 2003
For more than 20 years, Simon has reported many of the most important global news stories for many of the world’s leading news networks.
In the United States, he’s been a familiar face on the PBS NewsHour, working as a Special Correspondent for the program since 1992. He’s reported events for America’s leading nightly news analysis program from dozens of datelines, including Russia, Iraq, India, Pakistan, Brazil, Turkey, Syria, Singapore, Indonesia, South Korea and his native Great Britain. You can find many of Simon’s reports for the PBS NewsHour and other broadcasters in “From The Archives”.
In Asia, Simon can be seen daily on Channel News Asia, the region’s leading 24-hour English news channel. As the network’s US Bureau Chief, Simon oversees the channel’s coverage from across the United States, and covers the day’s major stories. He also anchors special coverage of events including the US Presidential Election, and has been a fixture of Channel News Asia’s programming since 1999.
Simon provided dramatic, live coverage of the events of September 11th 2001 for South African Broadcasting, the continent’s leading broadcaster. Simon began contributing to SABC TV and Radio News shortly after the country’s political transition to democracy, and he’s reported events for South African audiences from all over the world.
Simon’s work as a Contributing Correspondent for the Fox News Channel also took him all over the world for America’s most-watched 24-hour cable news channel. He’s reported for Fox from a variety of datelines including Russia, Iraq, Pakistan, Jordan, Cuba and the UK. In 2005, he covered the 7th July Al Qaeda attacks on London for Fox, and anchored a special edition of the morning newscast “Fox and Friends”.
You can also see Simon regularly on the English service of France 24. His reports and news analysis from Washington DC have included coverage of the economic challenges facing the Obama administration as it attempts to deal with the nation’s rising unemployment, and record budget deficit.
Simon also contributes regularly to the global programming of VOA News. He’s reported for VOA from Sudan, Venezuela, Turkey, Russia, France and Britain.
Activist Chen Guangcheng tests US/China relations
In recent years, there have been few potential diplomatic crises as grave for the United States as the one sparked by the escape from house arrest of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, and his subsequent "retrieval" by US diplomats who then sheltered him in the American embassy in Beijing.....
read moreSuper Tuesday 2012: Simon’s Full, Multi-Media Coverage
“Super Tuesday” is one of the biggest days in the American electoral calendar, and on March 6 2012 ten states across the country are taking part in Republican party primaries and caucuses, as America’s “Grand Old Party” continues the process of picking a candidate to take on Barack Obama in the November 2012 election. For a week leading up to “Super Tuesday”, Simon provided FSN’s clients worldwide with extensive multimedia coverage of the battle for the Republican nomination. That...
read moreChina’s next President comes to Washington
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......
read moreMaking History at The White House
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 Economy, Foreign Affairs and Innovation. He also answered pre-taped questions submitted by members of the YouTube audience. Production of the event presented enormously complex...
read moreUS reaction to Kim Jong Il death
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......
read moreObama Declares Iraq War Over
On December 14th 2011, US President Barack Obama welcomed some of the last US forces serving in Iraq home to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The ceremony marked the formal end of the country’s nearly 9 year military operation in Iraq, which began with the ouster of President Saddam Hussein, but quickly morphed into almost a decade of controversial and violent occupation. Simon covered the start of the war in 2003 for a wide variety of networks around the world. And, when President Barack Obama declared the war’s end, he filed this...
read moreUS/Pakistan: No More “Business As Usual”?
On November 28th 2011, the Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani vowed that there would be no return to "business as usual" in his country's relationship with the United States, following an unexplained NATO air strike that took the lives of more than 25 Pakistani soldiers the previous weekend....
read morePresident Obama’s Mission to Asia
In November 2011, President Barack Obama travelled to the APEC Summit in Honolulu, then visited Australia, and finally the Asian Economic Summit in Bali. Declaring that "the United States is a Pacific nation", the President told audiences that he planned to repoint US foreign policy in the direction of the Asia Pacific.
read moreUS Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote
On October 31 2011, the United States announced that it would no longer fund UNESCO – the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. The move followed a vote by UNESCO members to offer grant the Palestinians membership in the UN-body. The US maintains that membership of UNESCO, and other UN bodies, should only be offered to the Palestinian Authority as part-and-parcel of a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement. Simon provided coverage of the US decision for a variety of FSN’s clients...
read moreUK Election Coverage
Simon's Emmy-award winning television coverage is seen regularly by millions of viewers worldwide, and his reporting has spanned the globe over the past 25 years. In May 2010, Simon covered the British General Election that led to the formation of the historic coalition between the Conservatives' David Cameron and the Liberal-Democrats' Nick Clegg......
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