Edwin r murrow biography meaning
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April 28, 1965
OBITUARYEdward R. Murrow, Broadcaster And Ex-Chief of U.S.I.A., Dies
BY THE NEW YORK TIMES
Edward R. Murrow, whose independence and incisive reporting brought heightened journalistic stature to radio and television, died yesterday at his home in Pawling, N. Y., at the age of 57.
The former head of the United States Information Agency had been battling cancer since October, 1963. He had been in and out of the hospital ever since, and death came three weeks after he was discharged from New York Hospital for the last time.
The ever-present cigarette (he smoked 60 to 70 a day), the matter-of-fact baritone voice and the high-domed, worried, lopsided face were the trademarks of the radio reporter who became internationally famous during World War II with broadcasts that started, "This. . .is London."
Later, on television, his series of news documentaries, "See It Now," on the Columbia Broadcasting System from 1951 to 1958, set the standard f
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Edward Murrow
Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) is credited with being one of the creators of American broadcast journalism.
Murrow inspired other journalists to perpetuate First Amendment rights
His compelling radio dispatches from London during the Blitz — the nightly bombings of the city in 1940–1941 — made him a celebrity. His weekly television program, See It Now, in the 1950s solidified his reputation. His 1954 confrontation with Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin made him an icon of journalistic independence, which has inspired other journalists to perpetuate First Amendment rights of free expression.
Murrow, who was born Egbert Roscoe Murrow, adopted the name Edward by the time he was in high school. He graduated in 1930 from Washington State College, where he was elected president of the National Student Federation of America. He parlayed his successful NSFA presidency into a job as assistant to the director of the Institute of International Education.
Murrow joined CBS
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Edward R. Murrow
American broadcast reporter (1908–1965)
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. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a grupp of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys.
A pionjär of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television schema See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator namn McCarthy. Fellow journalists Eric Sevareid, Ed Bliss, Bill Downs, Dan Rather, and Alexander Kendrick consider Murrow one of journalism's greatest figures. Murrow's life has been dramatized in several films, including Good Night, and Good Luck, which takes its name from the signature sign-off phrase Murrow used to end many of his wartime bro