Jim Simon

Jim Simon is a veteran editor, reporter and newsroom leader, with extensive experience as a teacher and trainer in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. During the 2020-21 autumn and winter quarters, he taught the COMM 362 News Lab course at the University of Washington. Before that, he was managing editor at the Seattle Times, where he worked more than three decades as a reporter and editor. As a senior editor, he helped lead reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2010 and 2015. He was the paper’s chief political reporter, senior environmental reporter, Sunday magazine writer and head of the Olympia bureau. He’s won national reporting awards for his investigative coverage of the environment and the state’s mental health system.