Simon Murphy
@simon-murphy.bsky.social
Senior news reporter, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People [email protected]
We stand united — tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror splash.
October 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
We stand united — tomorrow’s Sunday Mirror splash.
Thrilled to have won the Orwell Prize for reporting homelessness among such an impressive group of finalists. Thank you to the judges, @orwellprize.bsky.social, my brilliant @mirror.co.uk colleagues & editors, charities who helped with our coverage & to those who trusted us to tell their stories.
June 26, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Thrilled to have won the Orwell Prize for reporting homelessness among such an impressive group of finalists. Thank you to the judges, @orwellprize.bsky.social, my brilliant @mirror.co.uk colleagues & editors, charities who helped with our coverage & to those who trusted us to tell their stories.
Exc: Shamed Thames Water was shortlisted for a string of awards before being hit with a record £122.7 million fine. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
May 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Exc: Shamed Thames Water was shortlisted for a string of awards before being hit with a record £122.7 million fine. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Adopted kids and those in kinship care hit by government cut to therapy lifeline - our coverage in today's Daily Mirror.
May 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Adopted kids and those in kinship care hit by government cut to therapy lifeline - our coverage in today's Daily Mirror.
Grounded — today’s Daily Mirror front page
March 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Grounded — today’s Daily Mirror front page
Delighted our hidden homeless series has been shortlisted in the written investigation category at the Amnesty Media Awards. You can watch our short documentary investigating the issue, which accompanied pieces published in the Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror, here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_T23...
March 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Delighted our hidden homeless series has been shortlisted in the written investigation category at the Amnesty Media Awards. You can watch our short documentary investigating the issue, which accompanied pieces published in the Sunday Mirror and Daily Mirror, here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_T23...
Daily beatings, electric shocks... torture was so savagely cruel that you would not want to eat. Interview in today's Sunday Mirror with Ukrainian priest who endured hell in Russian captivity. Pictures by Rowan Griffiths. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
March 9, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Daily beatings, electric shocks... torture was so savagely cruel that you would not want to eat. Interview in today's Sunday Mirror with Ukrainian priest who endured hell in Russian captivity. Pictures by Rowan Griffiths. www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Our coverage from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, in today's Daily Mirror. A visit to the village where war has stolen kids' laughter... and inside the underground school offering safety to pupils. Photographs by Rowan Griffiths.
February 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Our coverage from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, in today's Daily Mirror. A visit to the village where war has stolen kids' laughter... and inside the underground school offering safety to pupils. Photographs by Rowan Griffiths.
EXC: Dispatch from Zaporizhzhia, stricken Ukrainian city barely 25 miles from the frontline, in today's Sunday Mirror. We went inside hospitals, seeing victims of the war — and interviewed brave British nurse. Photographs by Rowan Griffiths.
February 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
EXC: Dispatch from Zaporizhzhia, stricken Ukrainian city barely 25 miles from the frontline, in today's Sunday Mirror. We went inside hospitals, seeing victims of the war — and interviewed brave British nurse. Photographs by Rowan Griffiths.
EXC: As children learn in neat rows of desks under their teacher’s watchful eye, it could be any classroom.
But these pupils are 23ft underground… mere miles from Ukraine’s frontline with Russia.
Inside Zaporizhzhia’s first purpose-built bunker school: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
But these pupils are 23ft underground… mere miles from Ukraine’s frontline with Russia.
Inside Zaporizhzhia’s first purpose-built bunker school: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
February 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
EXC: As children learn in neat rows of desks under their teacher’s watchful eye, it could be any classroom.
But these pupils are 23ft underground… mere miles from Ukraine’s frontline with Russia.
Inside Zaporizhzhia’s first purpose-built bunker school: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
But these pupils are 23ft underground… mere miles from Ukraine’s frontline with Russia.
Inside Zaporizhzhia’s first purpose-built bunker school: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
Mirror visits hospitals in war-torn Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine — barely 25 miles from the frontline. First dispatch from the city: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
<< with powerful pictures by Rowan Griffiths
<< with powerful pictures by Rowan Griffiths
February 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Mirror visits hospitals in war-torn Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine — barely 25 miles from the frontline. First dispatch from the city: www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-n...
<< with powerful pictures by Rowan Griffiths
<< with powerful pictures by Rowan Griffiths