# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/simon-ostrovsky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:23:14.353Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/simon-ostrovsky"
name: "Simon Ostrovsky"
slug: "simon-ostrovsky"
description: "Simon Ostrovsky is an American journalist and documentary producer. He is best known for his coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War in 2014 and 2015, when he was dispatched by VICE News to cover the events that unfolded in Ukraine as the country came into conflict with neighbouring Russia prior to and after Crimea's annexation by the latter. His other reports have covered Uzbek child labour, North Korean internment camps, the 2015 Europe migrant crisis, and the Arab–Israeli conflict."
tagline: "Soviet-born American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Simon_Ostrovsky.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1981-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.931142666666668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "SimonOstrovsky"
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4579785/"
    handle:    "nm4579785"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.simonostrovsky.com/"
sources:
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    title: "Simon Ostrovsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Ostrovsky"
    title: "Simon Ostrovsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Ostrovsky"
    title: "Simon Ostrovsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Ostrovsky"
    title: "Simon Ostrovsky"
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    title: "Simon Ostrovsky"
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  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simons_Ostrovskis"
    title: "Simons Ostrovskis"
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    title: "Simon Ostrovsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%2C_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D0%BE%D0%BD"
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    title: "Симон Островський"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump