Award-winning journalist and war correspondent Michael Hastings has died in a car accident in Los Angeles Tuesday. He was 33. Hastings moved to Vermont at age 16, and attended Rice High School in South Burlington.
BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith says he learned from a family member that Hastings died early Tuesday.
Hastings wrote about politics for the popular news site and has written books dealing with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He won a Polk Award for magazine reporting for his Rolling Stone cover story "The Runaway General."
The story was credited with ending Gen. Stanley McChrystal's career after it revealed the military's candid criticisms of the Obama administration.
VPR's Neal Charnoff interviewed Hastings in 2008. Listen Here.
