Peter Arnett, Pulitzer Prize-winning Vietnam Reporter, Dies

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American reporter and one of the most famous names in US journalism who spent decades in war zones, from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has died at the age of 91.

The announcement was made by the Associated Press, the American news agency to which Arnett has long been associated.

Arnett, who won the Pulitzer Prize for International Journalism in 1966 for his Vietnam War reporting for the Associated Press, died yesterday in Newport Beach, surrounded by friends and family, his son Andrew Arnett said. He had entered hospice care on Saturday due to prostate cancer. As a news correspondent, Arnett was best known for his fieldwork in Vietnam from 1962 until the war's end in 1975. He subsequently became a household name in the US, and a television personality, starting in 1991 after providing live updates on the first Gulf War for CNN.