Barry Petersen Biography

In a career spanning more than three decades with CBS News Barry Petersen 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.
Petersen 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 barefoot.
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. Petersen's coverage of the Bosnian war and the courage of men women and children under fire in Sarajevo earned him one of his Emmy Awards for The Spirit of Sarajevo on CBS Sunday Morning. In 2010 he was recognized with another Emmy Award for coverage of the global recession in China.

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