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English journalist

Not to be confused with John Simpson (journalist/consumer advocate).

John Cody Fidler-SimpsonCBE (born 9 August 1944)^[2] is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News.^[3] He has spent all his working life with the BBC, and has reported from more than 120 countries, including thirty war zones, and interviewed many world leaders.

He was educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read English and was editor of Granta magazine.

Early life and education

Simpson was born on 9 August 1944 in Cleveleys, Lancashire,^[4] but was taken to his mother's "bomb-damaged house in London" the following week.^[5] He says in his autobiography that his father Roy, a property developer, was a Christian scientist.^[6] His parents separated when he was seven years old and he chose to remain with his father while his mother cared for his two half siste