NBC reporter David Bloom, who provided around-the-clock reports for the broadcast network and its sister cable station MSNBC while embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Iraq, died Sunday of an apparent pulmonary embolism.

NBC fired journalist Peter Arnett Monday after he granted an interview to Iraq's state-run television in which he said the U.S.-led coalition's war plans against Iraq had "failed because of Iraqi resistance."…