# 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.

*By YPB Team · Published August 18, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/who-is-the-greatest-war-correspondent-of-all-time*

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## Current results (2 votes)

1. **Ernie Pyle** — 50% (1 votes · score 1000/1000)
   Wrote the war from the foxhole rather than headquarters and won a Pulitzer for it.
2. **Robert Capa** — 50% (1 votes · score 927/1000)
   Photographed five wars and landed with the first wave at Omaha Beach.
3. **William Howard Russell** — 0% (0 votes · score 709/1000)
   The Times man in Crimea, generally counted the first modern war correspondent.
4. **Michael Herr** — 0% (0 votes · score 709/1000)
   His Vietnam book Dispatches rewrote what war reporting was allowed to sound like.
5. **David Halberstam** — 0% (0 votes · score 709/1000)
   Won a Pulitzer at 30 for Vietnam reporting that contradicted the official line.
6. **Winston Churchill** — 0% (0 votes · score 600/1000)
   Filed for the Morning Post from South Africa in 1899, was captured aged 24 and escaped to write it up.
7. **Marguerite Higgins** — 0% (0 votes · score 600/1000)
   First woman to win a Pulitzer for international reporting, from Korea in 1951.
8. **Martha Gellhorn** — 0% (0 votes · score 466/1000)
   Covered eight wars over sixty years and reached Normandy by stowing away on a hospital ship.
9. **Edward R. Murrow** — 0% (0 votes · score 466/1000)
   Broadcast live from London rooftops during the Blitz and made radio reporting authoritative.
10. **Ryszard Kapuscinski** — 0% (0 votes · score 466/1000)
   Polish reporter who covered dozens of coups and turned the dispatches into literature.
11. **Christiane Amanpour** — 0% (0 votes · score 466/1000)
   Made her name reporting the Balkans and has anchored international coverage since.
12. **John Simpson** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   BBC world affairs editor who has reported from around thirty conflicts.
13. **Marie Colvin** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   Reported from Sri Lanka, Chechnya and Syria, wearing the eyepatch that became her signature.
14. **Kate Adie** — 0% (0 votes · score 300/1000)
   The BBC's chief news correspondent through the 1980s and 90s, reporting from the front repeatedly.

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