Margaret Simons

Margaret Simons is an award-winning freelance journalist and the author of many books and numerous articles and essays. She is also a journalism academic and Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Advancing Journalism.

She has won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism, a Foreign Press Association Award, and a number of Quill Awards, including for her reporting from the Philippines with photojournalist Dave Tacon.