Arnaud de Borchgrave, former editor-in-chief of the Washington Times and chief foreign correspondent for Newsweek, died Feb. 15 after a long bout of cancer. He was 88.
After did a six-year stint at the daily-owned by South Korea's Unification Church, he left in 1991 to take the president/CEO post of United Press International. At death, de Borchgrave was editor-at-large for both outlets.
As foreign correspondent, he covered both France's and America's war in Vietnam from 1954 through 1975. He interviewed world leaders such as Charles de Gaulle, Shah of Iran, President Ronald Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi.
Larry Beasley, CEO of the Times, called deBorchgrave a "giant of journalist," who did globe-trotting journalism to keep Americans informed of world events.
"His tireless work as our editor-in-chief helped put The Washington Times on the map in its early days," he told the paper on Feb. 15.
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