Peter Gregg Arnett, ONZM (born 13 November 1934) is a New Zealand-born journalist holding both New Zealand and US citizenship.[1]
Arnett worked for National Geographic magazine, and later for various television networks, most notably CNN. He is known for his coverage of the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. He was awarded the 1966 Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for his work in Vietnam from 1962 to 1965, mostly reporting for the Associated Press. In 1994, Arnett’s book Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World’s War Zoneswas published. In March 1997, Arnett interviewed Osama bin Laden.[2] The journalism school at the Southern Institute of Technology that was named after him closed in 2015.[3]