Journalist John Simpson

John Simpson

Living place: England

Birthday: 9-8-1944 (80 years old)

Global rank: #40994

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Who is Journalist John Simpson?
John Cody Fidler-Simpson is a British journalist, editor, foreign correspondent and diplomat for BBC News. It can be said that during his career as a journalist, he has spent his entire life working at the BBC with articles related to more than 120 countries, including 30 war zones, and interviewing many leaders. world.
John Simpson has authored several novels such as:
  • Moscow Requiem
  • A Fine and Private Place
or articles about real stories
  • The Disappeared: Voices from a Secret War, with Jana Bennett
  • Behind Iranian Lines
  • Despatches from the Barricades
  • Strange Places, Questionable People
  • A Mad World, My Masters
  • News From No Man's Land
  • The Wars Against Saddam: Taking the Hard Road to Baghdad
  • Days from a Different World: A Memoir of Childhood
  • Not Quite World's End: A Traveler's Tales
  • Twenty Tales From The War Zone
  • Unreliable Sources
 
 

Young / Before famous

Simpson spent ten years of his childhood at Dunwich in Suffolk. He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory and St Paul's School, followed by Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1960, he began working as a journalist as an editor of Granta magazine. By 1965, he was a member of the Magdalene University Challenge team. In 1970, Simpson became a BBC reporter, BBC radio news editor. From 1980 to 1981, he became a BBC political editor presenting the 9 o'clock news program and became a diplomatic editor in 1982. He also served as a reporter at the BBC. South Africa, Brussels and Dublin and became a BBC world affairs editor in 1988.
Most recently he appeared as a regular on a news program called Simpson's World. TV presenter.
Simpson has received numerous awards including the CBE personal honor gaiir in 1991, an international Emmy for his writing for BBC Ten O'Clock News on the fall of Kabul, the Golden Nymph at Cannes Fi.
In 2015, he was honored by the international men's magazine (GQ) as one of the 50 best dressed men in Britain.

Family life info

Simpson had two marriages and he had three children. His first marriage to Diane Petteys was in 1965, they had two daughters, Julia Simpson and Eleanor Simpson.
After his first marriage ended in 1995, he remarried again to a television producer. South African model Adele Kruger in 1966 and they have a son together named Rafe Simpson (born January 2006).

Close relationship

Who is Girl friend/ wife/ darling Journalist John Simpson?
He is a longtime BBC News personality, which is also the case with chief correspondent Kate Adie.

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When was Journalist John Simpson born?
John Simpson birthday 9-8-1944 (at the age of 80).
Where is Journalist John Simpson's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
John Simpson was born in England. Mr, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Monkey. John Simpson's global rank is 40994 and whose rank is 146 in list of famous Journalist.
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Events in 1944 and 9-8

Events in the world in the birth year of John Simpson

  • Allies invade Normandy on D-Day (June 6). Background: Normandy campaign
  • Bretton Woods Conference creates International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
  • Dumbarton Oaks Conference—U.S., British Commonwealth, and U.S.S.R. propose establishment of United Nations.
  • Battle of the Bulge begins as Germans penetrate Allied front in Belgium (Dec. 16 to Jan. 1945).
  • Anne Frank and her family betrayed and sent to concentration camps. She will die in 1945.

Birthday John Simpson (9-8) in history

  • Day 9-8 year 1854: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published.
  • Day 9-8 year 1936: Jesse Owens became the first American to win four gold medals in one Olympics.
  • Day 9-8 year 1945: The United States exploded a nuclear bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 74,000 people.
  • Day 9-8 year 1965: Singapore proclaimed its independence from Malaysia.
  • Day 9-8 year 1974: Vice president Gerald Ford was sworn in as president following Nixon's resignation.
  • Day 9-8 year 1995: Jerry Garcia, lead singer and guitarist of the Grateful Dead, died.
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