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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.
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.
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 ...
The Cronkite School houses the national headquarters of the News21 Initiative, the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism, [8] the Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship, the National Center on Disability and Journalism and the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism. The Cronkite School recently made its ...
In 1972, a survey found that CBS TV Network news anchor Walter Cronkite was the “most trusted man in America.” Today, such trusted voices are rare. A pervasive sense of agita has taken over ...
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 ...
The Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism is an annual award presented by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. The recipient is deemed to represent a leading figure in the journalism industry, especially for ground-breaking achievements which have advanced the industry as a whole.
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]