After a 2013 story[6] about the exploitation of foreign migrant workers who made iPhone cameras, Apple said[7] it banned all forms of bonded labor from its supplier factories worldwide.
A 2012 cover story[8] exposed death and environmental destruction in the global supply chain for all smartphones and tablets, for which Apple also later acknowledged its role.
[9] Beyond tech companies, Simpson's reporting also included a 2014 piece[10] detailing the role of the largest-listed hedge fund on Wall Street in providing a $100 million cash infusion for Robert Mugabe’s government as he was rolling out a campaign of violence, torture and murder to hold onto power in Zimbabwe.
In September 2015, Publisher’s Marketplace announced that HarperCollins had signed Simpson to write a narrative non-fiction book about a trio of human rights lawyers and a journalist who unravel the mysterious murders of a dozen unlikely victims of the Iraq war, following a trail of profiteers from the Himalayas to Houston.
[2] Before his time at the Tribune, he worked for the Chicago Sun-Times covering federal and organized crime, the FBI, and US courts.