Walter Cronkite

After getting written up in the Observer and the Post, the 860-870 United Nations Plaza co-op owned by late news anchor Walter Cronkite has finally hit the market for $2.995 million. The online listing just popped up through broker...  

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In 1963, it was CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite who broke the big story of the JFK assassination. In 2009, Twitter would have it first. The news may not be as accurate, but in the age of real-time, that's the way it is.  

NPR and PBS share some resources and audience. Among them are the Woodroofs.Night-before-last, Charlie came in to my home office to announce that another chunk of the world, as we knew it, had ended. The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer had become the PBS News...  

In the December 4, 2009 edition of Entertainment Weekly, CBS’s Katie Couric bizarrely asserted that the late Walter Cronkite possessed an "unwavering commitment to reporting the news accurately, fairly, and responsibly." In the brief tribute, she also repeated, "Walter Cronkite once said, ‘Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy.’" In reality, Cronkite thought of himself as a liberal and often...  

NEW YORK - Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of "NBC Nightly News," received the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University today. ASU's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism bestowed its 26th ...  

Brian Williams (AP) PHOENIX - 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 ...  

NBC newsman Brian Williams recently received the 26th Annual Cronkite Award from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. On Sunday, Nov. 21, The Arizona Republic commendably printed excerpts from...  

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...  

Derek Quizon Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Professors from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication were forced to cut short a panel interview with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Monday night when a group of protesto Professors from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication were forced to cut short a panel interview with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio Monday night when a group of protestors...  

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — 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 ...  

•Arizona State University will present NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams with its 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism this Wednesday. CBS "Evening News" anchor Katie Couric also won an award named for Cronkite this year. New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.  

As we mentioned, NBC "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams was in Arizona this week to receive the 2009 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. This is the first time the award has been given since Cronkite's passing. "The honor you give me here today is the highest of my career," Williams said. "I get to have my name mentioned alongside the best there ever was -- the man I wanted to be." "I am convinced that had he come along...  

In 1968, Walter Cronkite cynically said, "I thought we were supposed to be winning this war," after the U.S. appeared to lose in North Vietnam's Tet Offensive. With that comment, President Lyndon Johnson said, "If we lose Cronkite, we lose America." The modern-day equivalent of that is, "If we lose Brazil, we lose South America."  

Arizona Republic | The State Press Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's appearance at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication was cut short Monday when protestors broke into song. "I understand your passion about this issue," Cronkite dean Chris Callahan told them. "It just seems to me, misplaced." || ASU paper's story and video.