Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow Headshot

Journalist • Broadcaster

Birth Date: April 25, 1908

Death Date: April 27, 1965

Birth Place: North Carolina

A pioneer of broadcast journalism, Edward R. Murrow set the bar for integrity in the medium through his famed reporting from Europe during World War II, and later with his uncompromising coverage of national and world events for CBS News. Murrow was largely credited with providing the turning point in national opinion towards Senator Joseph McCarthy's Communist accusations during the Red Scare of the 1950s, though his rise to prominence came at a heavy price. Murrow's steadfast adherence to journalistic ethics and principles led to outspoken criticism of network programming and news coverage, which in turn led to his ouster from the network that he had helped to build in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The path he blazed for generations of news reporters and journalists remained a high-water mark for the medium, as well as a reminder of the duty all journalists shared in presenting the facts of the day in clear, concise and honest terms.

Credits

Satchmo the Great

Writer
Movie
1957

Person to Person

Host
TV Show
1953

See It Now

Host
TV Show
1951

What's My Line?Stream

Guest
TV Show
1950

Studio OneStream

Narrator
TV Show
1948