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Derek Leonard Round( 1935 – May 17, 2012) was a New Zealand journalist and Vietnam War correspondent. He graduated from Canterbury University as a law graduate but later started with journalism after working with the Parker-Hulme murder trial in 1975 as a legal intern. During this time Derek was 19 years old. == Career == Derek's media career started in the middle of the 1950s when he was working as an editor for Canta, the Canterbury University student newspaper. In 1960 he started as the bureau chief for Reuters, an international news agency, in Singapore and Hong Kong. From 1973-1977 he worked as an Asia correspondent for the New Zealand Press Association (NZPA) as the Asia correspondent in both Singapore and Hong Kong. Later on he started working at the parliamentary press gallery as a political editor, also at NZPA. His roles also included London beureau chief and editor, which he worked as for five years, from 1984 and on.〔http://www.3news.co.nz/Distinguished-journalist-Derek-Round-dead/tabid/423/articleID/254803/Default.aspx#ixzz2LFAsmbW0〕 Derek got a lot of credit for his work in Hong Kong for having an important role in giving the New Zealanders an introduction to Asia at the time when New Zealand wanted to get its bonds with China strengthened. This was during the time when New Zealand was starting to have stronger links t the region of Asia. Derek worked on the Vietnam war and was one of the last journalists from New Zealand to leave Saigon when the war ended. He was one of the first journalists from the western world to be allowed into China efter the ”ping-pong” diplomacy of president Richard Nixon. In 1976 Derek also followed along Prime minister Rob Muldoon on a visit to China. Derek was one of the few journalist to be selected to attend the ceremony of the marriage of Charles and Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. This was the highlight of Derek's time in London. After retreating to his private office, Derek got an early retirement in about 1990. Derek was not very scared of threats, bullets, or land mines; and therefore he often got into places that were visited seldom. He was one of the most distinguished journalists in New Zealand and he got the reputation for being a successful “gung-ho” reporter after working in a war zone which was very challenging.He got to be a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for his work to journalism, in 2010.〔http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/obituaries/6993966/Derek-Round-Gung-ho-journo-and-a-gentleman〕 It has also been told that Derek worked as a spy for the SIS as a result of the Soviet Union contacted him. This was told by Martin Round who is Dereks cousin.〔http://www.3news.co.nz/Distinguished-journalist-Derek-Round-dead/tabid/423/articleID/254803/Default.aspx#ixzz2LFAsmbW0〕 He was also an author and wrote books and on July 15 2002, Random House New Zealand published a 189 pages book called “barbed wire Between Us, written by Derek Round.〔http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/obituaries/6993966/Derek-Round-Gung-ho-journo-and-a-gentleman〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Derek Round」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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