Who is the greatest war correspondent of all time?

The people who filed from the rooftop, the beach and the foxhole. One of them went home and ended up running the country.

1

Ernie Pyle

Wrote the war from the foxhole rather than headquarters and won a Pulitzer for it.

1000pts

2

Robert Capa

Photographed five wars and landed with the first wave at Omaha Beach.

927pts

3

William Howard Russell

The Times man in Crimea, generally counted the first modern war correspondent.

709pts

4

Michael Herr

His Vietnam book Dispatches rewrote what war reporting was allowed to sound like.

709pts

5

David Halberstam

Won a Pulitzer at 30 for Vietnam reporting that contradicted the official line.

709pts

6

Winston Churchill

Filed for the Morning Post from South Africa in 1899, was captured aged 24 and escaped to write it up.

600pts

7

Marguerite Higgins

First woman to win a Pulitzer for international reporting, from Korea in 1951.

600pts

8

Martha Gellhorn

Covered eight wars over sixty years and reached Normandy by stowing away on a hospital ship.

466pts

9

Edward R. Murrow

Broadcast live from London rooftops during the Blitz and made radio reporting authoritative.

466pts

10

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Polish reporter who covered dozens of coups and turned the dispatches into literature.

466pts

11

Christiane Amanpour

Made her name reporting the Balkans and has anchored international coverage since.

466pts

12

John Simpson

BBC world affairs editor who has reported from around thirty conflicts.

300pts

13

Marie Colvin

Reported from Sri Lanka, Chechnya and Syria, wearing the eyepatch that became her signature.

300pts

14

Kate Adie

The BBC's chief news correspondent through the 1980s and 90s, reporting from the front repeatedly.

300pts