About 

Evan Simon is an investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York's Hudson Valley. 

He is a National Edward R. Murrow Award winner, an Overseas Press Club Award winner, a duPont-Columbia Award winner, and a two-time National Emmy Award winner. His multimedia work has appeared in ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, PBS Thirteen, WNYC, Audubon Magazine, The Pollution Blog, as well as exhibited at The Gowanus Loft, The New York Public Library, Calumet Gallery, Gulf and Western Gallery and The Old Toad Farm.

All views expressed on this website are his own.

Pictured on assignment at Standing Rock.

Image credit: Madeline Cottingham Simon

Awards:

WINNER - 2024 - DuPont Columbia Awards - "Trashed: The Secret Life of Plastic Recycling"

WINNER - 2023 - Deadline Club, National Television Series or Investigative Reporting  - "Caffeine Jungle"

WINNER - 2022 - Overseas Press Club, Morton Frank Award for Best International Business Reporting - "Caffeine Jungle"

WINNER - 2021 - National Edward R. Murrow Award, Excellence in Video - "Guardians of the Amazon"

WINNER - 2020 - Society of Environmental Journalists Awards, 2nd Place for Outstanding Feature Report - "Guardians of the Amazon"

NOMINEE - 2019 - National News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Environmental Report - "Journey to the Edge: Antarctica"

NOMINEE -  2017 National News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in Spanish - "Hora Cero"

WINNER - 2016 National News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Feature Story in a Newscast - "Steps into a High Calm"

NOMINEE - 2016 National News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Video Journalism - "Steps into a High Calm"

NOMINEE - 2016 National News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Editing News - "Steps into a High Calm"

HONOREE - 2016 Webby for News & Politics Best Individual Episode - "Steps into a High Calm"

NOMINEE - 2016 Webby for Best Editing People’s Choice Award - "Steps into a High Calm"

WINNER - 2015 National News and Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Video Journalism: "Dead Horse Bay"

WINNER - 2013 Best of Design Award of Excellence, Society of News Design - "Borderlands"

SHORTLISTED - 2013 Innovation Award, European Press Prize - - "Borderlands"

WINNER - 2012 Edward Willis Scripps Award for Distinguished Service to the 1st Amendment