David Willey (journalist)
David Willey is currently the BBC's Correspondent in Rome and has held this post since 1971.
He is a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where he read law and modern languages. His first post in Rome was as a trainee with Reuters; this was followed by a period in Algeria, where he worked as a freelance reporter after that country's independence from France in 1962. In 1964, he became the BBC's correspondent in East Africa. His career continued in 1965 with a spell in Asia, where he reported widely on the early part of the Vietnam war from Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam. Also in 1965 he reported from Beijing for the BBC, becoming one of its first foreign correspondents to report from China since the Communist takeover. He was based in London from 1969 to 1971 in the post of the Corporation's Assistant Diplomatic Correspondent. [1]
Honours
Order of the British Empire, 2003 for services to broadcasting journalism.
References
- ^ Biographies, David Willey, BBC, retrieved 25 December 2009
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