Former CBS News foreign correspondent Tom Fenton has died at the age of 94, CBS News has confirmed.
A Navy veteran and award-winning reporter, Fenton spent more than three decades working for the venerable news network.
After joining the network in 1970, Tom Fenton spent time stationed in Rome, Tel Aviv, Paris, London, and Moscow until retiring in 2004. He was part of award-winning coverage of the death of Princess Diana in 1997 along with the rise of the ayatollah in Iran.
“Tom is the embodiment of the wise and worldly CBS News correspondent,” then-CBS News President Andrew Heyward said when Fenton retired. “He is equally at home dodging bullets on a battlefield or prowling the corridors of power in London or Moscow or Jerusalem. In a world where civility is increasingly a casualty of competitive pressures, Tom holds steady to that most old-fashioned of virtues: He’s a true gentleman.”
Before joining the television network, Fenton worked at the Baltimore Sun after serving in the United States Navy.
