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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.
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 ...
The format of the revival was basically the same as the original versions. These programs were also hosted by Cronkite. Both series were produced by CBS News. From 2000 to 2005, Cronkite presented a series of essays for National Public Radio, reflecting on various key events of his life, including his involvement in You Are There in the 1950s.
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 ...
Arnold Zenker is a retired media broadcaster and public appearance counselor, who gained national attention as a 28 year old CBS News executive by sitting in for Walter Cronkite on the nightly Evening News during an AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) strike in April, 1967. Newsweek hailed his performance as "the smash ...
By ISABELLE CHAPMAN Peter Cronkite was found dead at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, just weeks before he was set to graduate. Waterville police responded to a medical emergency at a dormitory ...
A Reporter's Life by Walter Cronkite was published by Ballantine Books on October 28, 1997. The 384-page memoir chronicles Cronkite's decades of reporting, focusing on his experiences with D-Day, the Civil Rights Movement, the John Kennedy assassination, NASA's first crewed Moon landing and Moon walk, freedom movements in South Africa and much more.
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 ...