Ethel Simpson (2 September 1926 – 12 December 2017) was a pioneering Scottish journalist.

After completing a shorthand typing course at Webster's College, she joined the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1944 at age seventeen.

[2] Ethel then became a Junior Reporter for the Aberdeen Press and Journal in 1945, the first woman to do so.

[3] In 1955 and 1956, Ethel spent three months on a 10,000 tour of North Africa, writing about her travels.

[1] Ethel pressed for gender equality in the newsroom, and protested when a female reporter was told to go home and change into a skirt.