Leo Tolstoy, Crimean War 1854-1855. A Russian of high class, he was an enlisted officer in the Caucasus, where he had gone arguably to escape his gambling, and the debts he had accrued. At the age of 26, he went to the site of the siege of Sevastopol, during the Crimean War, 1854. He wrote despatches there for the St Petersburg literary journal/newspaper The Contemporary. His essays based on his observances of boredom, rubbish dumping, meaningless suffering and disorder provided the basis for three publications, the Sevastopol Sketches. These were commended by the Czarina and translated into the French at her request. Tolstoy narrated the conditions, the bravery and the boredom encountered by the troops. He was frequently critical of higher officers. His skeptical essays were read by Mark Twain who travelled to Sevastopol long after the war and wrote The Innocents Abroad as a result. Tolstoy's sketches torpedoed him to fame and informed his later writings, including War and Peace.
Chas Gerretsen (born 1943); covered the war in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos and received the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award for his coverage of the 1973 Chilean coup d'état
David Halberstam (1934–2007); American journalist, The New York Times. Covered the war in the Congo and the Vietnam War for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.
Dickey Chapelle (1918–1965); covered the Pacific War, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Vietnam War (where she was killed by a landmine). She was the first female US war correspondent to be killed in action.
Don McCullin; British photographer. Covered conflicts in Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Biafra.
Edgar Rice Burroughs; WWII—covered the attack on Pearl Harbor. Became one of the oldest war correspondents ever.
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965); Covered the Blitz in London and the European Theater during World War II for CBS News. Hired a team of foreign correspondents for CBS News who became known as the "Murrow Boys".
Edwin L. James (1890–1951); covered World War I for The New York Times
Ernie Pyle; Scripps-Howard Newspapers, reported human interest stories from the front lines in World War II, Pulitzer Prize, 1944. Pyle was killed by a machine gun burst on the island of Iejima in April 1945, while covering ongoing conflict on the island.
Frank Hewlett (1913–1983); covered WW2 in the Philippines
Frank Palmos (1940–); Vietnam War 1965–1968, Indonesian Civil War 1965–66.
Gary Knight (born 1964); British photojournalist. Covered conflicts in: Yugoslavia, Iraq, Afghanistan war.
Gaston Chérau (Niort (France) 1872 - Boston (USA) 1937). French war correspondent and photograph for Le Matin during the Italo-Turkish war over Libya (1911-1912) and for L'Illustration at the beginning of World War I (1914-1915). See : Pierre Schill, Réveiller l’archive d’une guerre coloniale. Photographies et écrits de Gaston Chérau, correspondant de guerre lors du conflit italo-turc pour la Libye (1911-1912), Créaphis, 2018, 480p.et 230 photographies.
George Sessions Perry (1910–1956); Writer who covered WWII for Harper's Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post. Accompanied troops on invasions of Italy and France. Said after the war that his war experiences "de-fictionalized" him for life and never wrote fiction again.
Gloria Emerson (1929–2004); covered the Vietnam War for The New York Times in 1970–72 and wrote the book Winners and Losers which won the National Book Award.
Greg Clarke (1892–1977); Canadian war correspondent who covered World War I and II.
Henry Tilton Gorrell (1911–1958); United Press correspondent. Covered the Spanish Civil War and World War II. Author of "Soldier of the Press, Covering the Front in Europe and North Africa, 1936–1943" in 2009.[1]
Horst Faas (1933–2012); Associated Press Saigon Photographer, two Pulitzer Prices, co author "Lost Over Laos", "Requiem", "Henri Huet". Covered the Congo War, Algeria, Vietnam, Bangladesh.
Jacques Leslie; Cambodian–Vietnamese War correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, 1972–1973, 1975. Leslie was the first American journalist to enter and return from Viet Cong (National Liberation Front) territory in South Vietnam, in January 1973.[2]
James Nachtwey (born 1948); American photographer. Covered Northern Ireland, South Africa, Iraq, Sudan, Indonesia, India, Rwanda, Chechnya, Pakistan, Kosovo, Bosnia, Romania, Afghanistan, Israel.
Jean Leune (1889–1944); and Hélène Vitivilia Leune (?–1940), French war correspondents who as a married couple covered the First Balkan War in Greece 1912–1913.
Jessie Pope; was a pro war journalist and poet during the first world war.
Joseph L. Galloway (born November 13, 1941); UPI correspondent in Vietnam and co-author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young.
Joseph Morton (born in 1911 or 1913, died in 1945); Associated Press war correspondent, the first American correspondent to be executed by the enemy during World War II.
Karsten Thielker (born 1966); German photojournalist. Covered Rwanda Genocide, Kosovo. 1995 Pulitzer Prize.
Kate Webb (1943–2007); covered the Vietnam and Cambodian wars for UPI; captured by the North Vietnamese in Cambodia in 1971 and held for three weeks; covered East Timor war. Later Gulf War, Indonesia, Afghanistan for AFP.
Larry Burrows (1927–1971); British photojournalist famous for his work in the Vietnam War. Killed in a helicopter crash over Laos with three colleagues.
Larry LeSueur; CBS radio correspondent, reported from rooftops during World War II London blitzes, went ashore in the first waves of the D-Day invasion, and broadcast to America the Allied liberation of Paris. One of the "Murrow Boys".
Neil Davis; Australian combat cameraman covered the Vietnam War, Cambodia and Laos and subsequently conflicts in Africa. He was killed in 1985 in Thailand.
Peter Scholl-Latour (1922–2014); German journalist who covered conflicts in Africa and Asia, Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Cambodia, etc. Author of 30 books.
Philip Gibbs; Official war Correspondent for Britain during World War I.
Philip Jones Griffiths (1936–2008); British photojournalist who covered the Vietnam War.
Marie Colvin (1956–2012) American UPI after Sunday Times journalist. Covering the conflict in Syria, Marie was killed in Homs. Covered conflicts in Sierra Leone, Chechnya, Sri Lanka, Libya
Terry Lloyd (1952–2003), British television journalist, covered the Middle East. He was killed by U.S. troops while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN.
İrfan Sapmaz (born 1962) Turkish senior war correspondent; covered the Soviet–Afghan War from 1987 for six years onwards, as well as the Gulf Wars and more-recent conflicts in the Middle East for CNN Türk.