Simon Denyer

Simon Denyer is a British journalist, author, and wildlife conservationist. He served as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief for the Washington Post and for Reuters, including in Beijing, New Delhi, Washington, Islamabad, Nairobi, New York and London.

Education Denyer graduated from Lancing College in 1983. He earned a master of arts degree in economics from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1987. Denyer had initially planned a departure from the Washington Post in July 2021, but was requested to stay an additional 2 months to cover the Tokyo Olympics.

Criticism of Manmohan Singh Denyer faced criticism in 2012 for his article "India's “silent” prime minister becomes a tragic figure", in which he criticized former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Singh’s media advisor, Pankaj Pachauri, posted in the online comments section after the article was posted, claiming Denyer did not get in contact with the Prime Minister’s Office to get their side of the story. Denyer countered, saying he had requested an interview with the PM three times and wanted to meet senior PMO officials but his requests were ignored or declined. Two quotes from the article first appeared in a 2011 article published by the Indian magazine The Caravan. The quotes appeared without citation on Denyer's article. Former media advisor Sanjaya Baru and Tushar Poddar, an economist from Goldman Sachs, distanced themselves from the attributed comments.

Denyer admitted that his quotes came from The Caravan The Washington Post printed a correction.

Felicia Sonmez lawsuit In August 2021, an accusation of sexual harassment against Denyer was made public by The Daily Beast in its coverage of Felicia Sonmez's lawsuit against the Post. Sonmez accused the newspaper of managerial hypocrisy for having barred her from covering stories on sexual assault because she had come out as a sexual assault survivor, while allowing an unnamed journalist, reported to be Denyer, to continue coverage of such stories despite the past accusation against him. A female reporter accused Denyer of having once sent her an unsolicited photo of his underwear-covered crotch.