Beatrice Oppenheim Freeman, a retired journalist and author, died Feb. 18 at Huntington Hospital in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. She was 99.

For many years, she was a feature writer, daily columnist, and women’s page editor for newspapers and national magazines. During World War II, she was a war correspondent for Magazine Digest and The New York Herald Tribune. According to a 1995 Library of Congress exhibition, Women Come to the Front, she was one of a relative handful of accredited women war correspondents who covered that conflict.

After the war, as a regional editor for Magazine Digest, she covered government agencies in Washington. In later years, she specialized in travel writing. Her travel articles appeared in The New York Times, the Newhouse newspapers, the Christian Science Monitor, the Pan Am Clipper, the Providence Journal, and other publications.

Mrs. Freeman was also the author of The Second Home Handbook (Random House) and Look Before You Lease: The Tenant’s Home Companion (Vanguard Press), which was cited by The New York Times Magazine as an essential guide for selecting and living in a rented home. With her journalist husband, Ira Henry Freeman, she co-authored Careers and Opportunities in Journalism (Dutton). For more than a decade, she was also a vice-president and assistant manager of the New York real estate holding company that she inherited from her father, Charles Oppenheim.

Born May 11, 1908 in New York city, Mrs. Freeman, who was known to her friends as Bop, was a longtime resident of Woodbury and Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. In 1937, she married Ira Freeman, a reporter for The New York Times, and accompanied him on many of his far-flung assignments in the United States and overseas.

After World War II, the couple discovered the Vineyard on a sailing vacation and for about 50 years they were summer residents of Edgartown. Among other interests, they were devoted supporters of the Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society. Like her husband, Mrs. Freeman was an avid sailor, cross-country skier, and music and art aficionado. He died in 1997 at the age of 90.

Private burial arrangements are being handled by the A. L. Jacobsen Funeral Home in Huntington Station, N.Y. She leaves no survivors.