Peter Braestrup (June 8, 1929[2] – August 10, 1997) was a correspondent for The New York Times and The Washington Post, founding editor of The Wilson Quarterly, and later senior editor and director of communications for the Library of Congress.
Braestrup's 1977 Freedom House-sponsored book,[4] the two-volume Big Story, criticized US media coverage of the Vietnam War's 1968 Tet Offensive.
[3] The book, which argued that the media coverage of the offensive was excessively negative and helped lose the war, "is regularly cited by historians, without qualification, as the standard work on media reporting of the Tet offensive".
He graduated from Yale University in 1951, and served six months in the Korean War, being discharged in 1953 after being seriously wounded in action.
He worked for the Times initially in Washington, then in Paris, North Africa (including the Algerian War), and Thailand.