Murrow, Edward R

Murrow, Edward R

▪ American journalist
born April 25, 1908, Greensboro, N.C., U.S.
died April 27, 1965, Pawling, N.Y.
 radio and television broadcaster who was the most influential and esteemed figure in American broadcast journalism during its formative years.

      Murrow graduated from Washington State College (now University), Pullman. He served as president of the National Student Association (1929–31) and then worked to bring German scholars displaced by Nazism to the United States. He joined the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS Corporation) (CBS) in 1935 and was sent to London in 1937 to head the network's European Bureau. Murrow's highly reliable and dramatic eyewitness reportage of the German occupation of Austria and the Munich Conference in 1938, the German takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1939, and the Battle of Britain during World War II brought him national fame and marked radio journalism's coming of age.

      After the war Murrow became CBS vice president in charge of news, education, and discussion programs. He returned to radio broadcasting in 1947 with a weeknight newscast. With Fred W. Friendly he produced Hear It Now, an authoritative hour-long weekly news digest, and moved on to television with a comparable series, See It Now. Murrow was a notable force for the free and uncensored dissemination of information during the American anticommunist hysteria of the early 1950s. In 1954 he produced a notable exposé of the dubious tactics of Senator Joseph McCarthy (McCarthy, Joseph R.), who had gained prominence with flamboyant charges of communist infiltration of U.S. government agencies. Murrow also produced Person to Person (1953–60) and other television programs. He was appointed director of the U.S. Information Agency in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy.

Additional Reading
Murrow's life and work are examined in A.M. Sperber, Murrow: His Life and Times (1986); and Joseph E. Persico, Edward R. Murrow (1988, reissued 1997).

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