Cam Simpson

Simpson was raised in St. Charles, Illinois. He obtained his degree in political science and journalism from Eastern Illinois University.

In an interview with the Poynter Institute, Simpson said many of his investigative pieces for Businessweek focus on connecting people who pull the levers of power in the world with "the people who get caught in the gears."{{cite book|last1=Angelotti|first1=Ellyn|last2=Winburn|first2=Jan|title=Secrets of Prize-Winning Journalism|publisher=Poynter Institute for Media Studies}} Several of Simpson’s investigative features for Businessweek have focused on the world’s technology giants. A 2014 piece detailed how Samsung[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-04-11/samsung-s-war-at-home "Samsung's War at Home,"] Cam Simpson, April 10, 2014 tried to silence or thwart the families of young women who contracted rare cancers working on its assembly lines (the company issued an apology[https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-05-14/in-samsungs-war-at-home-an-apology-to-cancer-stricken-workers "In Samsung's War at Home, an Apology to Cancer-Stricken Workers"], Cam Simpson, Bloomberg News, May 14, 2014 on South Korean television for its treatment of the families). After a 2013 story{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Cam|title=An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain|website=Bloomberg.com|date=8 November 2013|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2013-11-07/an-iphone-tester-caught-in-apples-supply-chain|publisher=Bloomberg Business|access-date=22 January 2016}} about the exploitation of foreign migrant workers who made iPhone cameras, Apple said{{cite web|last1=Higgins|first1=Tim|title=Apple Bans 'Bonded Servitude' at Supplier Factories Worldwide|website=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-11/apple-bans-bonded-servitude-at-supplier-factories-worldwide|access-date=22 January 2016|date=11 February 2015}} it banned all forms of bonded labor from its supplier factories worldwide. A 2012 cover story{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Cam|title=The Deadly Tin Inside Your Smartphone|website=Bloomberg.com|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2012-08-23/the-deadly-tin-inside-your-ipad|access-date=22 January 2016|date=23 August 2012}} exposed death and environmental destruction in the global supply chain for all smartphones and tablets, for which Apple also later acknowledged its role.{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Cam|title=To Apple, From a Deadly and Devastated Slice of Paradise|website=Bloomberg.com|date=14 February 2014|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-02-13/apple-supply-report-acknowledges-its-smartphones-and-tablets-rely-on-smelters-using-illegally-mined-tin}}

Beyond tech companies, Simpson's reporting also included a 2014 piece{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Cam|title=The Hedge Fund and the Despot|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-08-21/mugabes-bailout-och-ziff-investment-linked-to-zimbabwe-despot|website=Bloomberg.com|access-date=22 January 2016}} detailing the role of the largest-listed hedge fund on Wall Street in providing a $100 million cash infusion for Robert Mugabe’s government as he was rolling out a campaign of violence, torture and murder to hold onto power in Zimbabwe. Simpson also has done features for the magazine on the corporate structure{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Cam|title=The Banality of Islamic State|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2014-the-business-of-isis-spreadsheets-annual-reports-and-terror/|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|access-date=22 January 2016|date=20 November 2014}} and financial power{{cite web|last1=Simpson|first1=Cam|title=Why U.S. Efforts to Cut Off Islamic State's Funds Have Failed|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-19/why-u-s-efforts-to-cut-off-islamic-state-s-funds-have-failed|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|access-date=22 January 2016}} of the Islamic State.

In September 2015, Publisher’s Marketplace announced that HarperCollins had signed Simpson to write a narrative non-fiction book about a trio of human rights lawyers and a journalist who unravel the mysterious murders of a dozen unlikely victims of the Iraq war, following a trail of profiteers from the Himalayas to Houston.{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/|title=Publishers Marketplace|website=Publishersmarketplace.com|access-date=7 March 2022}}

Previously, he worked for The Wall Street Journal, with posts in the Middle East and Washington and as a correspondent for the Chicago Tribune where he was responsible for covering US foreign policy and investigative projects in Washington and overseas. He previously covered federal crime and organized crime for the Tribune in Chicago. Before his time at the Tribune, he worked for the Chicago Sun-Times covering federal and organized crime, the FBI, and US courts. Simpson has also worked for The Indianapolis Star, the Evansville Courier, and The News-Gazette in Champaign, Illinois.

• 2015 Overseas Press Club of America {{Cite web|url=https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/12-morton-frank-award-1|title = 12 the Morton Frank Award 2014|website=Opcofamerica.org}}
• 2014 Overseas Press Club of America (Joe and Laurie Dine Award for best reporting on human rights in any medium) {{Cite web |url=https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/17-joe-and-laurie-dine-award-0 |title=17 THE JOE AND LAURIE DINE AWARD | Overseas Press Club of America |access-date=2016-01-22 |archive-date=2016-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128020746/https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/17-joe-and-laurie-dine-award-0 |url-status=dead }}
• 2005 Overseas Press Club of America {{Cite web |url=https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/madeline-dane-ross-award-2005 |title=Madeline Dane Ross Award 2005 |access-date=2016-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128023613/https://www.opcofamerica.org/awards/madeline-dane-ross-award-2005 |archive-date=2016-01-28 |url-status=dead }}
• 2003 Overseas Press Club of America (citation for human rights reporting) {{Cite web|url=http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/overseas-press-club-awards-dominated-by-iraq-other-conflicts-72602547.html|title=Overseas Press Club Awards Dominated by Iraq, Other Conflicts|website=Prnewswire.com|access-date=7 March 2022}}
• 2014 Gerald Loeb Award for Magazine business journalism for "Stranded: An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple's Supply Chain"{{cite web|title=UCLA Anderson School of Management Announces 2014 Gerald Loeb Award Winners|url=http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2014/2014-gerald-loeb-awards|website=UCLA Anderson School of Management|date=June 24, 2014|access-date=January 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190201120336/http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/media-relations/2014/2014-gerald-loeb-awards|archive-date=February 1, 2019|url-status=dead}}
• 2005 George Polk Award, International Reporting [http://www2.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2005.html Long Island University Announces Winners of 2005 George Polk Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061208192229/http://www.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/press/2005.html |date=2006-12-08 }}
• 2003 George Polk Award, National Reporting {{Cite web |url=http://www2.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/polk.html |title=2003 George Polk Awards at a Glance |access-date=2016-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513032612/http://www2.brooklyn.liu.edu/polk/polk.html |archive-date=2016-05-13 |url-status=dead }}
• Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, International Reporting
• The Hillman Prize
• Foreign Press Association Media Awards (London) {{Cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/bcause/content/uploads/sites/6/2015/06/15_0518-Appendices.pdf |title=Archived copy |website=Bloomberg News |access-date=2017-03-05 |archive-date=2015-10-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151027130651/http://www.bloomberg.com/bcause/content/uploads/sites/6/2015/06/15_0518-Appendices.pdf |url-status=dead }}
• National Press Club Award {{Cite web|url=https://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/06/12/1678083.htm|title=National Press Club Honors Outstanding Journalism|website=Tmcnet.com|access-date=7 March 2022}}
• Edward Scott Beck Award for Foreign Reporting{{cite web|title=Finalist: Cam Simpson|url=http://www.kellyaward.com/mk_award_popup/simpson_c.html#simpson_biography|publisher=Kelly Awards|access-date=30 September 2013}}
• 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism for "Addicted to Profit", Bloomberg News{{Cite press release |title=Winners of the 2021 Gerald Loeb Awards Announced by UCLA Anderson in Live Virtual Event |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/winners-of-the-2021-gerald-loeb-awards-announced-by-ucla-anderson-in-live-virtual-event-301389479.html |date=September 30, 2021 |access-date=October 7, 2021 |publisher=UCLA Anderson School of Management |location=Los Angeles |last=Daillak |first=Jonathan}}

{{Reflist}}

• [https://www.pbs.org/wnet/expose/expose_2007/blog/cam_simpson/ "On EXPOSÉ: Human Trafficking to Military Bases"], PBS, September 19, 2007
• [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1512700 "Journalists Cam Simpson and Flynn McRoberts"], Fresh Air, November 19, 2003
• [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/islamic-state-richest-terrorist-armies-in-history/ Appearance on the PBS Newshour]
• [https://www.npr.org/2014/11/29/367424785/isis-and-the-corporatization-of-terrorism NPR interview on the corporate structure of Islamic State]
• [https://wetheeconomy.com/films/supply-chain-reaction/ Documentary short on the global supply chain for electronics]
• [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/b/6d2650f2-e704-4ef7-a544-a989035674b9 TV news story on the foreign migrant workers in Apple’s supply chain]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KG9j3OnngQ Acceptance speech for an Overseas Press Club award]

{{GeraldLoebAward Investigative}}

{{GeraldLoebAward Magazines}}

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Simpson, Cam}}

Category:American male journalists

Category:George Polk Award recipients

Category:Living people

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)

Category:The Wall Street Journal people

Category:Chicago Tribune people

Category:Gerald Loeb Award winners for Investigative

Category:Gerald Loeb Award winners for Magazines

Category:People from St. Charles, Illinois

Category:Journalists from Illinois

Category:Eastern Illinois University alumni