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The namesake Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, named after Cronkite. The Walter Cronkite papers are preserved at the curatorial Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. [8] Occupying 293 linear feet (almost 90 metres) of shelf space, the papers document Cronkite's journalism career.
Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel.The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel, and The Learning Channel.
On April 16, 1962, Walter Cronkite succeeded Edwards, and the broadcast was retitled Walter Cronkite with the News. On September 2, 1963, the newscast, retitled CBS Evening News , became the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast on network television and was moved to 6:30 p.m. Eastern time (NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report expanded to 30 ...
In 1950, when Edward R. Murrow convinced Walter Cronkite to join CBS News, the television news industry was still in its infancy. Nineteen years later, Cronkite left the network's anchor desk as ...
Under Rather's predecessor, Walter Cronkite, the CBS Evening News was a strong No. 1 in the ratings, [158] which Rather maintained through much of the 1980s. [159] However, Tom Brokaw and his NBC Nightly News, and Peter Jennings of ABC News' World News Tonight, increasing in popularity, eventually cut deep into the Rather broadcast's numbers. [160]
Gayle King, co-host of “CBS Mornings” and editor-at-large of Oprah Daily, received the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University on Tuesday at a ceremony ...
Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 [1] – July 4, 1997) was an American television, newspaper and radio journalist and author. [2] [3] He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his "On the Road" segments on The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite, and later as the first anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, a position he held for fifteen years. [4]
Walter Cronkite's Grandson, 22, Commits Suicide at Colby College By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Peter Cronkite was found dead at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, just weeks before he was set to graduate.