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Simon M. Ostrovsky ((ロシア語:Симон Островский); born February 2, 1981) is a Soviet-born American-Israeli〔http://www.jta.org/tags/simon-ostrovsky〕〔http://www.timesofisrael.com/detained-jewish-journalist-released-in-ukraine/〕〔http://heavy.com/news/2014/04/simon-ostrovsky-vice-reporter-kidnapped-ukraine/〕〔http://www.rt.com/news/154772-ostrovsky-vice-journalist-released/〕 documentary filmmaker and journalist best known for his coverage of the 2014 Crimea crisis and the war in eastern Ukraine for VICE News. He was briefly held hostage by pro-Russia militants there in April 2014. He won an Emmy Award in 2013 for his work with VICE. ==Career== Ostrovsky started his career in documentary filmmaking in 2007 after spending six years as a print reporter in the former Soviet Union, where he covered Russia for ''The Moscow Times'' and then Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan for the French news agency Agence France-Presse. In 2007, Ostrovsky produced an exclusive report for BBC ''Newsnight'' investigating government-sponsored child labor in the cotton industry of Uzbekistan, which a US embassy cable published by Wikileaks credited with reigniting the global campaign against Uzbek cotton.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Cable Viewer )〕 Ostrovsky traced the supply chains of multinational garment retailers like TopShop, Walmart and H&M to Uzbekistan, leading many Western cotton buyers to eventually boycott the country. In 2009, Ostrovsky exposed the use of North Koreans in work camps in Russia for BBC Newsnight, and linked their operations to the Russian Timber Group, a company owned and operated by the wealthy British Hambro family, which was paying the North Korean regime to use its workers in Russia. He revisited those camps with ''VICE'' Media founder Shane Smith in 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=North Korean Labor Camps - VICE - United States )〕 and later co-produced a separate report for VICE's documentary news series on HBO about the escape of defectors from North Korea in 2013.〔(Vice on HBO documentary on North Korean defectors ), youtube.com, retrieved April 23, 2014〕 Ostrovsky has reported extensively on the North Korean practice of sending workers abroad. In a report for the UK's ''Independent'' newspaper he described how a "North Korean labour force tens-of-thousands strong, put in place across Asia," helped finance the regime in Pyongyang through contracts with Western firms. In 2013, VICE Media hired Ostrovsky as a producer for the second season of VICE on HBO, where he helped the program earn an Emmy as an "Outstanding Informational Series." 〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vice )〕 In early 2014, he helped launch the company's new current affairs division, VICE News, with his investigation into allegations of corruption at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Why the Sochi Olympics are the Most Expensive in History )〕 and coverage of the 2014 crisis in Ukraine. His series of unvarnished video dispatches from Ukraine titled Russian Roulette won VICE News widespread acclaim and recognition as a burgeoning player on the media landscape.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Vice News Quickly Makes Mark With Ukraine Dispatches )〕 The series won two Webby Awards in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Russian Roulette )〕 He also made a documentary on Israeli settlements in the West Bank territory of the Palestinian authority.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Simon Ostrovsky - Renegade Jewish Settlers )〕 He is a former reporter for Al Jazeera English. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Simon Ostrovsky」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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