Ruth Simon is a New York-based reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where she covers small business and entrepreneurship.
She has previously covered consumer lending, mortgages and housing, and reported for WSJ's Personal Journal and Money & Investing sections.
Ruth won a 2019 Best in Business Award from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing for her coverage of the impact of the labor squeeze on small business. She was part of a WSJ team that received a 2021 New York Press Club award for spot news coverage of the Paycheck Protection Program rollout.
Before joining the Journal, Ruth worked for Money magazine and Forbes Magazine.
Ruth is part of a WSJ team that won a SABEW honorable mention for retail coverage in 2024, one that received a SABEW honorable mention for economics coverage in 2020 and, with other WSJ reporters, was a finalist for two Gerald Loeb Awards for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism in 2021, in the categories of explanatory journalism and breaking news. Ruth was also part of a team that was a finalist for a 2014 SABEW award for small business coverage as well as teams that won a one-time National Press Foundation award for coverage of the 2013 federal government shutdown and a Distinguished Business Reporting award in 2008 from the New York Newspaper Publishers Association for a package of stories on the subprime mortgage crisis.
