Peter Arnett, Pulitzer-Winning War Correspondent, Dies at 91 [View all]

Source: NYT

by Robert D. McFadden
Dec. 17, 2025, 10:37 p.m. ET

Peter Arnett, an intrepid Associated Press combat correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Vietnam War and became one of the world’s best-known television reporters on the scene of wars and insurrections for 18 years with CNN, died on Wednesday in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 91.

Mr. Arnett’s daughter, Elsa, confirmed his death and said the cause was prostate cancer.

From Vietnam’s jungles to war-torn Iraq, where he interviewed President Saddam Hussein and was twice among the last Western TV broadcasters in Baghdad — as the Persian Gulf War began in 1991 and as an American-led coalition invaded in 2003 — Mr. Arnett broke news and rules, infuriated national leaders and inspired generations of journalists.

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