Garrick Utley

Clifton Garrick Utley (November 19, 1939 – February 20, 2014) was an American television journalist. He established his career reporting about the Vietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent covering the war on-site.

Early life

Utley was born in

Utley worked for NBC News for 30 years before moving to ABC as chief foreign correspondent in 1993. He later moved to CNN in 1997, where he worked until 2002. He co-anchored CNN's coverage of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during the early morning hours of September 12, 2001.^{[citation needed]}

Later career

After leaving network television, Utley was a professor of broadcasting and journalism at the

He authored You Should Have Been Here Yesterday (2000), a narrative of the growth of television news in the United States. Board service included The

Utley died on February 20, 2014, at the age of 74, from prostate cancer. He was survived by his wife, Gertje Utley (née Rommeswinkel); his brothers, David and Jonathan; and his sister-in-law, Carol Marin, a longtime reporter at NBC station WMAQ.^[4]

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