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Tim Fitzsimons is an award-winning freelance reporter with over 15 years in journalism. From 2018 to 2022, he reported for NBC News Digital, covering breaking news and the LGBTQ beat, and managing social media for NBC Out to amplify key stories. As a member of the NLGJA, Tim is committed to impactful, accurate coverage of LGBTQ issues. He holds a master’s from Columbia Journalism School, where he focused on politics journalism and wrote a thesis on the Proud Boys.
Before NBC, Tim worked as a producer and reporter at NPR News in Washington, covering national stories like the South Carolina floods and the Pope’s visit. At Marketplace Radio, he produced radio segments on politics and finance for millions of listeners. Internationally, Tim served as an editor for Al-Monitor.com in Beirut, managing a team of translators and editing content on Middle East affairs, and he also supported NPR’s Beirut bureau on field production.
His work has appeared in NPR, BBC, The Economist, and Newsweek, with photography credits in GQ and The New York Post. Tim speaks English, Spanish, and conversational Arabic.
Updated CV available upon request.