Barry petersen biography

CBS News calls Barry Petersen one of their most experienced correspondents.

In a career spanning more than three decades with CBS News, he has reported on everything from wars and natural disasters to Paris fashions and the return of American Jazz to Shanghai, China.

His stories have been datelined from virtually every continent.

He has interviewed Hollywood stars including Jimmy Stewart, Bill Cosby, Pierce Brosnan and Sir Anthony Hopkins, as well as the leaders of the Bosnian war who were later tried as war criminals.

He also met the President of the South Seas nation of Kiribati, who showed up for the interview barefooted.

His war reporting includes being imbedded with US soldiers in Iraq and the US military’s Operation Restore Hope aimed at easing famine in Somalia.

He rode out on a tank in a convoy of Soviet troops retreating from Afghanistan and one of his reports was later featured in the movie “Charlie Wilson’s War.” His coverage of the Bosnian