was inducted into the Chicago Journalism Hall of Fame. Simon has been a Poynter Media Fellow at Yale University, a Hoover Media Fellow at Stanford University, and a Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics Fellow at Harvard University. In 2014 Simon became a fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. In 2015 Simon won the Dateline Award of the Society of Professional Journalists Washington, D.C. Professional Chapter for Best Column. He was cited for his "thought-provoking writing, storytelling, and interviewing skills" for six columns that included an "extremely prescient analysis of the rioting in Ferguson, Missouri.” In April 2013 Simon won first place in the National Headliner Awards for a series of columns he wrote during the 2012 presidential campaign on the politics of gun control. The Headliner Awards program is one of the oldest and largest annual contests recognizing journalistic merit in the communications industry. Simon has won the award six times. In July 2013, Simon was awarded first place by the National Press Club in winning the Angele Gingras Humor Award. Judges said: "Simon's writing is witty, specific and based on sharp observations of politics and the media." In July 2011 Simon was nominated for an Online Journalism Award in the Commentary / Blogging, Large Site division of the contest. Bibliography Simon is also a speaker and author. Books written by Simon include: Simon Says: The Best of Roger Simon (1986) Road Show: In America, Anyone Can Become President, It's One of the Risks We Take (1990; covers the 1988 presidential campaign) Show Time: The American Political Circus and the Race for the White House (1998; covers the 1996 presidential campaign) Divided We Stand: How Al Gore Beat George Bush and Lost the Presidency (2002; covers the 2000 presidential campaign) Reckoning: Campaign 2012 and the Battle for the Soul of America (2013; covers the 2012 presidential election) References External links 1948 births Living people Writers from Chicago American male journalists University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni Chicago Sun-Times people Politico people The Baltimore Sun people 20th-century American journalists 20th-century American non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American male writers American political writers