Pulitzer Winner Peter Arnett Dies at 91

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent renowned for his fearless reporting from Vietnam to Iraq, died Wednesday at age 91 in Newport Beach, California. He had been battling prostate cancer and entered hospice care on Saturday, surrounded by family and friends, according to his son Andrew Arnett.

Arnett's career spanned more than four decades of frontline journalism, beginning in his native New Zealand and extending to some of the world's most dangerous conflict zones. Born on November 13, 1934, in Riverton, he started as a reporter for the local Southland Times newspaper shortly after high school. "I didn't really have a clear idea of where my life would take me, but I do remember that first day when I walked into the newspaper office as an employee and found my little desk, and I did have an enormously delicious feeling that I'd found my place," he recalled in a 2006 oral history interview.

His path led him to Asia, where he worked for English-language papers in Thailand and Laos. In 1961, he joined The Associated Press as its Indonesia correspondent but was expelled after reporting on the country's economic troubles. He then moved to the AP's Saigon bureau...