Awards & Winners

Bob Simon

Date of Birth 29-May-1941
Place of Birth The Bronx
(United States of America, New York City, New York)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert D. Simon
Profession TV Journalist, Journalist, Television producer
Bob Simon is a CBS News television correspondent. From 1964 to 1967, Simon served as an American Foreign Service officer and was a Fulbright Scholar in France and a Woodrow Wilson scholar. From 1969 to 1971, he served a tour in the CBS News London bureau. From 1971 to 1977, he was based in the London and Saigon bureaus, where he served as a Vietnam War correspondent. From 1977 to 1981, he was assigned to the CBS News Tel Aviv bureau. From 1981 to 1982, he spent time in Washington, D.C., as the CBS News State Department correspondent. From 1982 to 1987, Simon served as a New York-based CBS News national correspondent. In 1987, Simon was named the CBS News Chief Middle Eastern correspondent. During the opening days of the Gulf War in January 1991, Simon and his CBS News team were captured by Iraqi forces and spent 40 days in Iraqi prisons; he later chronicled the experience in the book Forty Days. In 1996, Simon joined 60 Minutes as a correspondent, and in 1998, he was named a 60 Minutes II correspondent.

Awards by Bob Simon

Check all the awards nominated and won by Bob Simon.

2014


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing
Honored for : 60 Minutes
(The Recyclers)

Nominations 2014 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine 60 Minutes
The Recyclers
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine 60 Minutes
The Lost Boys
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Report in a News Magazine 60 Minutes
The Lost Boys
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing 60 Minutes
The Recyclers

2013


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine
Honored for : 60 Minutes
(Joy in the Congo)

Nominations 2013 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Feature Story in a News Magazine 60 Minutes
Joy in the Congo
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing 60 Minutes
Joy in the Congo

2003


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Report in a News Magazine
Honored for : 60 Minutes II
(The Lost Boys)

2002


News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Interview
Honored for : 60 Minutes II
(The Traitor)

1999


Peabody Award
(Personal Award for his international reports for CBS News.)