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Simon Ostrovsky is a Russian-American journalist and producer. He was born on February 2, 1981 in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. He is best known for his work as a correspondent for Vice News, where he has reported from conflict zones in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq.
Ostrovsky graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2003 with a degree in political science. He began his career as a freelance journalist in Moscow, covering the 2004 Beslan school siege and the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. He later moved to New York City and worked as a producer for ABC News and as a correspondent for Current TV.
In 2013, Ostrovsky joined Vice News as a correspondent and producer. He has reported from conflict zones in Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq, and has covered the 2014 Crimean crisis, the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, and the 2015 Russian military intervention in Syria.
In 2014, Ostrovsky was kidnapped by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine and held for three days. He was released unharmed.
As of 2021, Simon Ostrovsky's net worth is estimated to be $1 million.
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Simon Ostrovsky Net Worth
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In 2018, Ostrovsky joined media start-up Coda Media. as Investigations Editor and began contributing to PBS Newshour
In 2017 CNN hired Ostrovsky to its expanded investigations unit which also includes veteran investigative journalist Carl Bernstein.
Selfie Soldiers: Russia Checks in to Ukraine is an award-winning 2015 video investigation into the Russian military's presence in Ukraine, reported and produced by Ostrovsky. The documentary follows the steps of a careless Russian army soldier as he travels from Russia to the battlefield in eastern Ukraine, using selfies and other photographs the soldier has himself posted online. Selfie Soldiers departs from other such investigations into soldiers' social media posts when Ostrovsky re-enacts the photos himself to establish clearly that he has personally visited the locations where they were taken inside Ukraine and Russia. The film was awarded the prestigious Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award for its "innovative reporting" and an American Society of Magazine Editors Award for "outstanding use of video" in 2016.
In early 2014, he helped launch the company's new current affairs division, VICE News, with his investigation into allegations of corruption at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi and coverage of the 2014 crisis in Ukraine. His series of unvarnished video dispatches from Ukraine titled "Russian Roulette" won VICE News widespread acclaim and recognition as a burgeoning player on the media landscape. The series was nominated for two Emmys, won two Webby Awards in 2015, the AIB Media Excellence Awards and the Lovie Awards.
On April 21, 2014, while producing "Russian Roulette," a series of reports for Vice News in eastern Ukraine, Ostrovsky was taken captive in Sloviansk by the militia of the separatist pro-Russian leader, Vyacheslav Ponomarev, who said he was holding Ostrovsky for a potential trade. "We need prisoners. We need a bargaining chip," Ponomarev was quoted as telling The Moscow Times.
In 2013, VICE Media hired Ostrovsky as a producer for the second season of VICE on HBO, where he helped the program earn an Emmy as an "Outstanding Informational Series."
DuPont Columbia University Award for Journalism, ASME award (Ellie) - Video Award, Livingston Award - Finalist, Cine Golden Eagle finalist - Nonfiction content / Short – Documentary, Webby Honoree - Online Film & Video, News & Politics
He revisited those camps with VICE Media founder Shane Smith in 2011, and co-produced a separate report for VICE's documentary news series on HBO about the escape of defectors from North Korea in 2013.
In 2009, Ostrovsky exposed the use of North Koreans in work camps in Russia for BBC Newsnight, and linked their operations to the Russian Timber Group, a company owned and operated by the wealthy British Hambro family, which was paying the North Korean regime to use its workers in Russia.
Ostrovsky started his career in documentary filmmaking in 2007 after spending six years as a print reporter in Russia, where he covered Russia for The Moscow Times and then Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan for the French news agency Agence France-Presse.
In 2007, Ostrovsky produced an exclusive report for BBC Newsnight investigating government-sponsored child labor in the cotton industry of Uzbekistan, which a US embassy cable published by Wikileaks credited with reigniting the global campaign against Uzbek cotton. Ostrovsky traced the supply chains of multinational garment retailers like Topshop, Walmart and H&M to Uzbekistan, leading many Western cotton buyers to eventually boycott the country.
Simon Ostrovsky (Russian: Симо́н Остро́вский ; born February 2, 1981) is a Soviet-born American documentary filmmaker and journalist. He is known for his coverage of the 2014 crisis in Ukraine for VICE News and for Selfie Soldiers, a 2015 documentary in which he re-enacted a Russian soldier's social media posts to track him to Ukraine. He was briefly held hostage by pro-Russia militants there in April 2014. Ostrovsky won an Emmy Award in 2013 for his work with VICE and his series Russian Roulette was nominated for two Emmys. Ostrovsky, who is a Special Correspondent for PBS NewsHour, is also a recipient of the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award.
