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. 1
   Ernie Pyle

   Wrote the war from the foxhole rather than headquarters and won a Pulitzer for it.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Robert Capa

   Photographed five wars and landed with the first wave at Omaha Beach.
   927pts
3. 3
   William Howard Russell

   The Times man in Crimea, generally counted the first modern war correspondent.
   709pts
4. 4
   Michael Herr

   His Vietnam book Dispatches rewrote what war reporting was allowed to sound like.
   709pts
5. 5
   David Halberstam

   Won a Pulitzer at 30 for Vietnam reporting that contradicted the official line.
   709pts
6. 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. 7
   Marguerite Higgins

   First woman to win a Pulitzer for international reporting, from Korea in 1951.
   600pts
8. 8
   Martha Gellhorn

   Covered eight wars over sixty years and reached Normandy by stowing away on a hospital ship.
   466pts
9. 9
   Edward R. Murrow

   Broadcast live from London rooftops during the Blitz and made radio reporting authoritative.
   466pts
10. 10
    Ryszard Kapuscinski

    Polish reporter who covered dozens of coups and turned the dispatches into literature.
    466pts
11. 11
    Christiane Amanpour

    Made her name reporting the Balkans and has anchored international coverage since.
    466pts
12. 12
    John Simpson

    BBC world affairs editor who has reported from around thirty conflicts.
    0pts
13. 13
    Marie Colvin

    Reported from Sri Lanka, Chechnya and Syria, wearing the eyepatch that became her signature.
    0pts
14. 14
    Kate Adie

    The BBC's chief news correspondent through the 1980s and 90s, reporting from the front repeatedly.
    0pts

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