(Egbert Roscoe Murrow). Born in Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S., 25 April 1908. Attended Stanford University and the University of Washington; graduated from Washington State College, 1930. Married: Janet Huntington Brewster, 1934; one son. Served as assistant director of the Institute of International Education, 1932-35; began career with CBS as director of talks and education, 1935; became director of CBS' European Bureau in London, 1937; during World War II, hired and trained distinguished corps of war correspondents, including Eric Sevareid, Howard K. Smith, Charles Collingwood, and Richard C. Hottelet; returned to U.S. as CBS vice-president and director of public affairs, 1946; resigned to return to radio broadcasting, 1947; narrated and produced Hear It Now radio series, 1950-51; brought series to television as See It Now, 1951-58; began Person to Person television program in 1953; moderated and produced Small World, television series featuring discussions among world figures, 1958-60; appointed by President John F. Kennedy to head U.S. Information Agency (USIA) in 1961, and remained in post until 1964. Recipient: nine Emmy Awards. Died in New York, 27 April 1965.
TELEVISION SERIES 1952-58 See It Now (host) 1953-59 Person to Person (host) 1958-60 Small World (moderator and producer)
RADIO Hear It Now (host and co-producer), 1950-51.
PUBLICATIONS So This Is London. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1941. In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961. Edited with Edward Bliss, Jr. New York: Knopf, 1967. "Call It Courage: Act on Your Knowledge" (transcript). Vital Speeches (Washington, D.C.). 15 November 1993.
Jon Stewart is claimed to be the new Murrow by the NYT.
Murrow had great chops.
Murrow nailed it.
Murrow, like Cronkite, was another of the darlings of liberal Democrats from sea to shining sea.
Where’s the BARF alert? This hagiography deserves it if anything does.
Murrow, Cronkite, Rather
3 peas in a pod
http://dca.lib.tufts.edu/features/murrow/exhibit/bio.html
Understandably and to his credit, Murrow never forgot these early years in the Southern and Western United States and his familys background as workers and farmers. Throughout, he stayed sympathetic to the problems of the working class and the poor. Characteristic of this were his early sympathies for the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World) 1920s, although it remains unclear whether Edward R. Murrow ever joined the IWW.