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Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died

Peter Arnett reported from Vietnam to the Gulf Wars, earning the 1966 Pulitzer Prize and interviewing Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden during a 40-year career.

  • On Wednesday, Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent, died in Newport Beach after entering hospice Saturday due to prostate cancer.
  • Arnett joined The Associated Press as its Indonesia correspondent and arrived in Vietnam a year later; he remained with the AP until joining CNN and became a household name after live first Gulf War broadcasts.
  • He broadcast live by cellphone amid missile strikes in Baghdad while many Western reporters had fled, and he survived dangerous combat in Vietnam where four shots tore through a map inches from his face.
  • He resigned from CNN after the network retracted an investigative report he narrated and was fired while covering the second Gulf War for granting an interview to Iraqi state TV.
  • His legacy includes a memoir and archived reporting; Arnett published Live From the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World's War Zones and taught journalism at Shantou University before retiring to Fountain Valley, California with his wife Nina Nguyen.
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American journalist Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who spent decades dodging bullets to provide the world with reports on the war in Vietnam and the deserts of Iraq, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has died at the age of 92.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter has said goodbye.

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American war reporter Peter Arnett died at the age of 91, which his family reported.

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He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for his reporting from the Vietnam War. According to US media, the reporter Peter Arnett has now died in California at the age of 91.[more]]>

·Hamburg, Germany
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette broke the news in Pittsburgh, United States on Wednesday, December 17, 2025.
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