Bill McLaughlin was a longtime CBS News correspondent who covered several major world news events during a television career that spanned nearly 30 years.

A native New Yorker, McLaughlin graduated from Fordham University and worked as a radio and print journalist before joining CBS's Paris bureau in 1966. During his years with the network, he served as bureau chief in Germany and Lebanon and reported on wars in Vietnam and the Middle East, as well the murder of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics and the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II.

In addition to his on-air reporting, he participated in various CBS Reports documentaries, including The Palestinians, a 1974 installment for which he received an award from the Overseas Press Club.

McLaughlin died March 7, 2014, in Waterbury, Connecticut. He was 76.