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David Willey (born ) is a
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reporter and journalist based in Rome. He has served as
Vatican
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The Holy See
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correspondent since 1971, under five
Pope
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Biography
Willey read law and modern languages at
Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the Cherubs dining society and The Bats (the college drama society), and went from there to a
Reuters
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trainee post in
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. This was followed by a period in
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(1960–64), 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
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from
Saigon, then the capital of
South Vietnam. Also in 1965 he reported from
Beijing
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for the BBC, becoming one of its first foreign correspondents to report from China since the
communist revolution
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. He was based in London from 1969 to 1971 in the post of the corporation's Assistant Diplomatic Correspondent, becoming the BBC's Rome correspondent in August 1972.
He is the author of ''The Promise of Francis: The Man, The Pope And The Challenge Of Change'' (Simon & Schuster, 2015) which assesses the high expectations aroused by the election of the first pope from Latin America.
"The promise of Francis"
accessed 2020-05-05 His other books include: ''Italians'' (BBC Books, 1984) and ''God's Politician'' (Faber & Faber, and St Martin's Press, 1992), a critical biography of Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II ( la, Ioannes Paulus II; it, Giovanni Paolo II; pl, Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła ; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his ...
, whom he accompanied on more than 40 of his foreign journeys as a member of the Vatican press.
He was appointed to the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
in 2003 for services to broadcast journalism
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.
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David Willey (journalist) "From our Rome correspondent"
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Officers of the Order of the British Empire
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