Brian Munro Barron MBE (28 April 1940 – 16 September 2009) was a British foreign and war correspondent for BBC News.

[1] Directly on leaving school, he started as a print journalist, working for the Western Daily Press in Bristol,[2] before joining BBC News as a chief sub-editor in 1965.

[5] While still based in Africa, Barron later reported on the fall of Emperor Bokassa of the Central African Empire; and then the Rhodesian Bush War, resulting in the creation of Zimbabwe.

Returning to the United Kingdom in 1981, he became the BBC's all-Ireland correspondent, also spending three months covering the Falklands War from Chile, alongside longtime colleague Brian Hanrahan, who was with the British forces.

In 2000 Barron officially retired,[citation needed] but still resident in Asia in 2003 he covered the First Gulf War, where he started reporting from the US Navy nuclear powered aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71).

[7] Relocated back to New York City from mid-2004,[8] after official retirement from the BBC in late 2005, Barron and his cameraman Eric Thirer continued to work together.