Difference between revisions of "Paul Vallely (UK Journalist)"
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| − | Paul Vallely is a UK journalist | + | Paul Vallely is a UK journalist who has reported on Africa and development and in 2004/5 worked as a propagandist for the New Labour government of Tony Blair. |
Vallely was the [[The Times]] correspondent in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984/5. He was commended as International Reporter of the Year for his reports which [[Bob Geldof]] described as "vivid, intelligent, moving and brave". | Vallely was the [[The Times]] correspondent in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984/5. He was commended as International Reporter of the Year for his reports which [[Bob Geldof]] described as "vivid, intelligent, moving and brave". | ||
| − | In 2004/5 he was co-author of the report of the Commission for Africa set up by the British prime minister, Tony Blair, of which Bob Geldof was a member. Vallely ghost-wrote Geldof's autobiography, Is That It? and travelled with Bob Geldof across Africa to decide how to spend the £100m raised by Live Aid and was involved in the organisation of Live 8. | + | In 2004/5 he was co-author of the report of the [[Commission for Africa]] set up by the British prime minister, Tony Blair, of which Bob Geldof was a member. Vallely ghost-wrote Geldof's autobiography, Is That It? and travelled with Bob Geldof across Africa to decide how to spend the £100m raised by Live Aid and was involved in the organisation of Live 8. |
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==Resources== | ==Resources== | ||
Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vallely Paul Vallely] | Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Vallely Paul Vallely] | ||
Revision as of 08:20, 25 July 2007
Paul Vallely is a UK journalist who has reported on Africa and development and in 2004/5 worked as a propagandist for the New Labour government of Tony Blair.
Vallely was the The Times correspondent in Ethiopia during the famine of 1984/5. He was commended as International Reporter of the Year for his reports which Bob Geldof described as "vivid, intelligent, moving and brave".
In 2004/5 he was co-author of the report of the Commission for Africa set up by the British prime minister, Tony Blair, of which Bob Geldof was a member. Vallely ghost-wrote Geldof's autobiography, Is That It? and travelled with Bob Geldof across Africa to decide how to spend the £100m raised by Live Aid and was involved in the organisation of Live 8.
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