NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter. "I am convinced that had he come along today, I don't think he would have cracked through. I think there's too much noise, too much to cut through for a modest man from Missouri," Williams told an audience in Phoenix. "But God and history combined to give him to us right when we needed him." Williams spoke at a luncheon, where he was given the Cronkite... Read Full Story
NBC newsman Brian Williams said Wednesday he's not sure if Walter Cronkite would have succeeded in the age of cable news, blogs and Twitter. "I am convinced that had he come along today, I don't think he would have cracked through. I think there's too much noise, too much to cut through for a modest man from Missouri," Williams told an audience in Phoenix. "But God and history combined to give him to us right when we needed him." Williams spoke at a luncheon, where he was given the Cronkite... Read Full Story
A CBS News producer who worked with Walter Cronkite and Charles Kuralt and helped craft reports on subjects ranging from poverty to the Watergate scandal has died. A network statement says Bernard Birnbaum died Thursday at Stony Brook University Medical Center in Stony Brook, N.Y., after having a heart attack while visiting relatives nearby. He was 89. Birnbaum's CBS career won him seven Emmy Awards and took him to places ranging from Vietnam to the small-town America seen in "On the Road... Read Full Story
NBC newsman Brian Williams received the first Walter Cronkite Award for his work in journalism Wednesday since the veteran anchorman's death this summer. Williams was given the honor from Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at a luncheon in Phoenix. In 2004, Williams succeeded Tom Brokaw as anchor of "NBC Nightly News." In 2007, he became the first network anchor — active or retired — to host "Saturday Night Live." This year marks the first award ceremony since... Read Full Story
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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you very much.
To Chip, Kathy, and Nancy, who graciously shared your father with a nation that loved him; to Walter’s friends, colleagues, protégés, and all who considered him a hero; to the men of the Intrepid; to all of you who are gathered here today; I am honored to be here to pay tribute to the life and times of the man who chronicled our time.
I did not know Mr. Cronkite personally. And my regret is made more acute by... Read Full Story
Walter Cronkite, born November 4th 1916, dies at the age of 92 from cerebrovascular disease. He was best known for being the news anchor man for CBS Evening News for 19 years. His most notable coverage includes the Watergate scandal, the Cuban missile crisis, the assassination of President Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the Apollo 11's landing on the Moon. Cronkite was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri. He later went on to attend the University of Texas at Austin, where he got his start working... Read Full Story
Former President Bill Clinton remembered Walter Cronkite as "a great citizen and a profoundly good human being" during a memorial service Wednesday for the legendary newsman. Clinton saluted Cronkite for "an inquiring mind and a caring heart and a careful devotion to the facts." After watching Cronkite as a youngster, Clinton grew to be friends with him in adulthood, "and I just ended up being crazy about the guy." Others scheduled to appear included former Cronkite colleagues at CBS News... Read Full Story
A University of Texas official says legendary newsman's Walter Cronkite's papers and photographs will be permanently housed at the Austin campus and then exhibited in May. Don Carleton, director of the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History Center, told The Daily Texan student newspaper that the papers are the "most influential documents in the history of broadcast journalism." The center already has most of Cronkite's papers stored in its archives, including all of his reporter's... Read Full Story
US President Barack Obama Wednesday eulogized news legend Walter Cronkite as a paragon of trust and integrity and the antithesis of the "celebrity gossip" and "instant commentary" of today's media. Obama made a quick trip to New York to remember revered CBS news anchor Cronkite, who died in July, aged 92, and praised him as a "voice of certainty in a world that was growing more and more uncertain. "He never lost the integrity or the plainspoken speaking style that he gained growing up in the... Read Full Story
US TV news legend Walter Cronkite, dubbed "the most trusted man in America" for his calm and honest delivery during a tumultuous period in US history, died Friday in New York at the age of 92, said the CBS network, where he spent most of his career. President Barack Obama said the United States "has lost an icon." "For decades, Walter Cronkite was the most trusted voice in America," said Obama in a White House statement. "His rich baritone reached millions of living rooms every night, and in... Read Full Story
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