War Correspondent - Notable War Correspondents - 20th Century

20th Century

  • Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (1881–1931); covered the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.
  • Ralph Barnes (1899–1940); the first war correspondent killed during World War II
  • Michael Birch (1944 - 1968); killed in Saigon during Tet while covering the Vietnam War.
  • Bill Boss (1917–2007) Canadian war correspondent, for the Canadian Press, who covered World War II.
  • Alexandra Boulat
  • Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971); first female war correspondent, photographed Buchenwald concentration camp
  • Mary Marvin Breckinridge (1905–2002); covered World War II.
  • Wilfred Burchett (1911–1983); covered the Pacific War, Korean War and Vietnam War. He was known for covering news from the "other side" of the battlefield, and was often criticised of being a communist sympathiser.
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, WWII—covered the attack on Pearl Harbor. Became one of the oldest war correspondents ever.
  • Larry Burrows (1927 - 1971) British photo journalist famous for his work in the Vietnam War. Killed in a helicopter crash over Laos with 3 colleagues.
  • Robert Capa (1913–1954); covered the Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War, the European Theatre of World War II and the First Indochina War (where he was killed by a landmine).
  • Dickey Chapelle (1918–1965); covered the Pacific War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Vietnam War (where she was killed by a landmine). She was the first female US war correspondent to be killed in action.
  • Greg Clarke (1892–1977) Canadian war correspondent who covered World War I and II.
  • Basil Clarke (1879–1947); covered the fighting on the Western Front during WWI.
  • Alexander Clifford, covered World War II
  • Burton Crane (1901–1963); covered occupied Japan after World War II and the Korean War for the New York Times.
  • Walter Cronkite (1916–2009); covered the European Theater during World War II for United Press.
  • Neil Davis - Australian combat cameraman covered the Vietnam War, Cambodia and Laos and subsequently conflicts in Africa. He was killed 1985 in Thailand.
  • Albert K. Dawson (1885–1967); American photographer and film correspondent with the German, Austrian and Bulgarian army during the First World War
  • Luc Delahaye
  • Richard Dimbleby (1913–1965); covered World War II
  • Frank Palmos (1940-) Vietnam War 1965-1968, Indonesian Civil War 1965-66.
  • David Douglas Duncan
  • Kurt Eggers (-1943) World War II SS correspondent, editor of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps, was killed while reporting on the Wiking's battles near Kharkov. The German SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was named in his honor.
  • Gloria Emerson (1929–2004); covered the Vietnam War.
  • Horst Faas (1933 - 2012) Associated Press Saigon Photographer, 2 Pulitzer Prices, co author "Lost Over Laos", "Requiem", "Henri Huet". Covered the Congo War, Algeria, Vietnam.
  • Bernard B. Fall (1926–1967); covered the First Indochina War and the Vietnam War (where he was killed by a landmine).
  • Sylvana Foa, correspondent in Vietnam and Cambodia
  • J.C. Furnas; covered World War II.
  • Joseph L. Galloway (born November 13, 1941), UPI correspondent in Vietnam and co-author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
  • Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998); covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, Vietnam War, the Six-Day War and even the U.S. invasion of Panama.
  • Chas Gerretsen (born 1943); covered the war in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and received the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his coverage of the 1973 Coup d'État in Chile.
  • Georgie Anne Geyer (born 1935); covered the Guatemalan Civil War and the Algerian Civil War.
  • Philip Gibbs; Official war Correspondent for Britain during the First World War.
  • Nakayama Gishu
  • Al Gore (born 1948); covered the Vietnam War.
  • Henry Tilton Gorrell (1911–1958); United Press correspondent. Covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Author of "Soldier of the Press, Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936-1943" published by the University of Missouri Press, 2009.
  • Cork Graham (born 1964); imprisoned in Vietnam for illegally entering the country while looking for treasure buried by Captain Kidd.
  • Louis Grondijs (1878–1961); covered Russo-Japanese War, World War I, the Russian Civil War, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria and the Spanish Civil War.
  • Corra Harris early women correspondent in World War I.
  • David Halberstam (1934 - 2007). American journalist, New York Times. Covered the Vietnam War. David died in a car crash 2007 in California.
  • Macdonald Hastings
  • Max Hastings
  • Ron Haviv
  • Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961); covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II.
  • Michael Herr (1940) American Journalist in the Vietnam War. Book: Dispatches. Script: Full Metal Jacket. Voice over text in Apocalypse Now.
  • Marguerite Higgins; paved the way for female war correspondents.
  • Johannes-Matthias Hönscheid; covered World War II, only correspondent to receive the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Clare Hollingworth covered World War II, Algerian War, Vietnam War
  • Philip Jones Griffiths(1936 - 2008) British photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War.
  • Gary Knight (1964) British photojournalist. Covered conflicts in: Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan war.
  • Catherine Leroy (1945 - 2006) French photographer, covered the Vietnam War for Life Magazine.
  • Larry LeSueur, CBS radio correspondent, reported from rooftops during World War II London blitzes, went ashore in the first waves of the D-Day invasion, and broadcast to America the Allied liberation of Paris.
  • Jim G. Lucas, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, reported human interest stories from the front lines in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
  • Alexander Gault MacGowan, (1894–1970), correspondent for The Sun (New York), reported from the front lines in World War II.
  • Anne O'Hare McCormick
  • Don McCullin British photographer. Covered conflicts in Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Biafra
  • Steve McCurry (1950) American photographer. Covered Cambodian Civil War, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Gulf War. Member of Magnum Photos.
  • Alan Moorehead, covered World War II
  • Christopher Morris
  • Ralph Morse, (born 1917) covered World War II
  • Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Covered the Blitz in London and the European Theater during World War II.
  • James Nachtwey (1948) American photographer. Covered Northern Ireland, South Africa, Iraq, Sudan, Indonesia, India, Rwanda, Chechnya, Pakistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Romania, Afghanistan, Israel.
  • George Sessions Perry (1910–1956) Covered WWII for Harper's Weekly and Saturday Evening Post. He accompanied troops on the invasions of Italy and France. Said after the war that his war experiences "de-fictionalized" him for life, and he never wrote fiction again.
  • Roy Pinney (1911–2010) covered World War II and was present at the Normandy landing on D-Day for the Normandy Invasion. He also covered the Yom Kippur War in the Gaza Strip and conflicts in Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Africa and Colombia.
  • Jessie Pope was a pro war journalist and poet during the first world war.
  • Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, reported human interest stories from the front lines in World War II, Pulitzer Prize, 1944
  • John Reed (1887–1920); covered the Mexican Revolution, the First World War, and the Russian Revolution, author of Ten Days that Shook the World
  • John Rich (1917); American journalist. Covered WW2, Korea and Vietnam War for NBC.
  • Derek Round (1935 - 2012) Covered the Vietnam War.
  • Sydney Schanberg, his experiences in Cambodia during the Vietnam War are dramatized in The Killing Fields
  • Peter Scholl-Latour (1922) German journalist who covered conflicts in Africa and Asia, Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Cambodia a. m. o. Author of 30 books.
  • Sigrid Schultz
  • Robert Sherrod, World War II, Pacific theatre, Guadacanal and Tarawa/Saipan
  • William L. Shirer
  • Vaughan Smith (1963) British cameraman, covered Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosova, Gulf War.
  • Karsten Thielker (1966); German photojournalist. Covered Rwanda Genocide, Kosovo. 1995 Pulitzer Prize.
  • Richard Tregaskis, author of Guadalcanal Diary, dramatized in movie of same name.
  • Aernout van Lynden
  • Kate Webb (1943 - 2007); Australian photographer, covered the Vietnam and Cambodia War. Later Gulf war, Indonesia, Afghanistan.
  • Osmar White
  • Eric Lloyd Williams
  • Chester Wilmot
  • Paul Wood, BBC defense correspondent in the Middle East covering the Arab World since 2003.

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