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View all search resultsGlobe-trotting journalist de Borchgrave dies at age 88
Arnaud de Borchgrave, a flamboyant Belgium-born journalist who covered wars and befriended world leaders, has died
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Arnaud de Borchgrave, a flamboyant Belgium-born journalist who covered wars and befriended world leaders, has died. He was 88.
De Borchgrave served as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine and later led The Washington Times in its early days as its top editor.
Washington Times President and CEO Larry Beasley says de Borchgrave was a giant of journalism and helped put the conservative publication on the map.
During his career, de Borchgrave covered 17 wars by his count, including seven stints in Vietnam. He also filed dispatches from Israel's Six Day War of 1967, Moammar Gaddafi's barracks in Libya and European capitals during the height of the Cold War.
De Borchgrave's family said he had been fighting cancer. He died Sunday in a Washington hospice. (***)
