John Simpson (journalist)
John Cody Fidler-Simpson is an English foreign correspondent who is currently the world affairs editor of BBC News. 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.
Simpson in 2015
Simpson being questioned about his career by fellow-journalists at London's Frontline Club, October 2007
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene.
Magdalene College on the River Cam
Street front of Magdalene College porter's lodge, with its 16th-century architecture retained
The modern gargoyle of Benedict Spinola in the Quayside site; he is considered to have defrauded the college
The Pepys Building houses the Pepys Library