Overview
- He died Wednesday in Newport Beach, California, with family present, according to his son, as colleagues praised his impact on conflict reporting.
- Accounts of his illness conflict, with his son citing prostate cancer and El Periódico reporting a recent decline linked to pancreatic cancer.
- He won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for his Associated Press coverage of the Vietnam War.
- He gained global recognition reporting live from Baghdad for CNN during the 1991 Gulf War.
- His later years mixed high-profile work, including a 1997 interview with Osama bin Laden, with controversies that prompted his 1999 firing from CNN and the loss of an NBC role in 2003.