Since January 2024, he has been a senior video correspondent at The Wall Street Journal.

[2] He was the inaugural filmmaker-in-residence at Frontline[3] after spending nine years as a foreign correspondent and video journalist for The New York Times.

In 2015, Solomon won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times reporters working in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea during the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

[7] Solomon attended DePauw University, where he majored in communications and minored in studio art.

When the Arab Spring broke out, he moved to Cairo, where he worked as a freelancer for two years.