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Derek Taylor grew up amid the coal-fields of Nottinghamshire, in a house just round the corner from where D.H.Lawrence had lived. His first big shock came when he won a place to read history and law at Oxford. He found himself in the most aristocratic college, Christ Church. Baffled by the Woosterlike behaviour of his fellow students, he took refuge in University journalism, and that led to a job with Independent Television News.
He reported from Northern Ireland, Rome, West Africa, the Middle East and the United States, where he was based in Washington D.C. As ITN’s first Middle East correspondent, he covered five wars, and spent seven months in Iran during the Islamic revolution. For three of those months, he was on assignment for ABC News of America after the Iranian authorities had expelled all US passport-holders (a time and place portrayed in the film Argo). During this period, his daily reports for ABC’s Nightline were the only Tehran-based TV coverage of the American hostage crisis to reach U.S. viewers.
Derek went on to work for the BBC before becoming Chief Executive of the world’s biggest TV news agency owned by The Associated Press of America.
He now lives with his wife, Maggie in the Cotswolds, where he fills his time with writing, public speaking, charity work, walking and cooking. He has one son by a previous marriage, Dan, a philosophy lecturer and U.S. citizen.
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