Margaret Simons has written numerous articles and essays as well as many books, including a biography of Senate leader of the Australian Labor Party Penny Wong and Australian minister for the environment Tanya Plibersek.
10 Facts About Margaret Simons
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Margaret Simons's essay Fallen Angels won the Walkley Award for Social Equity Journalism.
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Margaret Simons is as of 2021 an Honorary Fellow at the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne.
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In 2010 Margaret Simons co-founded, with Melissa Sweet, the community-funded news site YouComm News, run by the Public Interest Journalism Foundation based at Swinburne University of Technology.
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Margaret Simons co-authored the memoirs of Malcolm Fraser, former Prime Minister of Australia, published in 2010.
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Margaret Simons was the media reporter for Crikey and has been a regular media commentator in The Guardian.
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Margaret Simons has written for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, and The Monthly.
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Margaret Simons was director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism and coordinator of the Master of Journalism degree at the University of Melbourne from 2012 to 2017, and served as Associate Professor of journalism at Monash University between 2017 and 2019.
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From 2018 to 2021 Margaret Simons was a Director and Chair of Research at the Public Interest Journalism Initiative.
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Margaret Simons was a finalist for a Walkley Award for journalism in 2007 for the story Buried in the Labyrinth, about the release of a paedophile into the community, published in Griffith Review.