David Scott Simon, professionally known as Scott Simon is an American journalist and the host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR. His father Ernie Simon is a comedian and his mother Patricia Lyons is a renowned actress.
His childhood was awesome as he grew up in different major cities including Washington D.C., Montreal, Francisco, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Canada with his siblings.
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At the age of 16, Simon lost his father. After the death of her husband, his mother Patricia Lyons later married Ralph G. Newman, an author and a former minor league baseball player who owns the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago. Simon is a graduate of Nicholas Senn High School.
CAPTION: David Scott Simon SOURCE: Instagram At the beginning of his career, Simon worked at several media stations, and in 1977, he landed a job at NPR as Chicago bureau chief, where he served for over 3 decades.
Besides journalism, Scott is also an author and has published several books including Windy City: A Novel of Politics about his experience adopting two daughters and Pretty Birds, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other; In Praise of Adoption, Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, and Home & Away: Memoir of a Fan.
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Moreover, Scott received wide notice as a host in many TV series such as PBS’s Need to Know, BBC World News America, and NBC’s Weekend Today.
CAPTION: David Scott Simon SOURCE: Instagram Additionally, Simon has earned major awards throughout his professional career as a broadcaster, including the Peabody and the Emmy award. Further, In the year 2016, Simon was named a Lincoln Laureate in the world of Business, Communications, and Industry.
Taking eyes on his personal life, Simon married a French documentary filmmaker Caroline Richard, in a mixed-faith service in Ridgefield, Connecticut, at the home of fashion designer, Alexandra Julian. The couple adopted two Chinese daughters, Elise and Lina.
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In 2006, Simon and his wife were put under investigation by the police as a part of the Alexander Litvinenko poisoning investigation. Similarly, in July 2003, Simon started tweeting about his emotions and conversations with his mother during her last days.
CAPTION: David Scott Simon SOURCE: Instagram Simon holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity. She earns a decent amount of money being an author, journalist, host, and television personality. As of 2022, the Emmy award-winning journalist, Scott Simon has a net worth of over $1.5 million.
Scott is highly active on his Twitter account as he has around 28.5K tweets and 1.24 million followers in his account.
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