US EditionPulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported from Vietnam and Gulf War, has died
- 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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The Pulitzer Prize-winning war reporter has said goodbye.
American war reporter Peter Arnett died at the age of 91, which his family reported.
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]]>
Peter Arnett died, who was among the most influential journalists of his time and told about the wars in Vietnam and Iraq as few others
When Operation Desert Storm finally began in January 1991, with its long-awaited air offensive against Iraq, only one Western journalist remained in Baghdad: Peter Arnett. His reporting from Vietnam earned him a Pulitzer Prize, but he became known to the general public as that CNN journalist in Baghdad.
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