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Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) [1] was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent.He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.
Edward R. Murrow hosted the original series from its inception in 1953 until 1959, interviewing celebrities in their homes from a comfortable chair in his New York studio (his opening: "Good evening, I'm Ed Murrow. And the name of the program is 'Person to Person'.
Harvest of Shame was a 1960 television documentary presented by broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow on CBS that showed the plight of American migrant agricultural workers.It was Murrow's final documentary for the network; he left CBS at the end of January 1961, at John F. Kennedy's request, to become head of the United States Information Agency.
The Murrow Boys, or Murrow's Boys, were the CBS radio broadcast journalists most closely associated with Edward R. Murrow during his time at the network, most notably in the years before and during World War II. Murrow recruited a number of newsmen and women to CBS during his years as a correspondent, European news chief, and executive.
Janet and Edward were the parents of one child, a son, Charles Casey Murrow, born 1945, in west London. He was a 1964 graduate of Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts , and a 1968 graduate of Yale University and is currently an educator in Vermont as well as a co-director of Synergy Learning.
Based on the film of the same name released in 2005, Good Night, and Good Luck follows Edward R. Murrow, a 1950s broadcast journalist, as he challenges Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy and his ...
The Edward R. Murrow Award is a journalism award given annually since 1978 by the Overseas Press Club of America for "Best TV, video or documentary interpretation of international affairs with a run time up to 30 minutes."
Don Hollenbeck (March 30, 1905 – June 22, 1954) was a CBS newscaster, commentator, and associate of Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly.He was the writer and producer of CBS Views the Press, a Peabody Award-winning radio show that critiqued powerful print journalists.