Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism (Turning Points, 12)
"Most Americans living today never heard Ed Murrow in a live broadcast. This book is for them I want them to know that broadcast journalism was established by someone with the highest standards. Tabloid crime stories, so much a part of the lust for ratings by today's news broadcasters, held no interest for Murrow. He did like Hollywood celebrities, but interviewed them for his entertainment programs; they had no place on his news programs. My book is focused on this life in journalism. I offer it in the hope that more people in and out of the news business will get to know Ed Murrow. Perhaps in time the descent from Murrow's principles can be reversed." —Bob Edwards
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Book details
- Author
- Bob Edwards
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 192
- Formats
- Hardcover, Paperback
- Series
- Turning Points in History
- Subjects
- Social Science › Popular Culture
- Topics
- journalism history · CBS · journalist biography · media ethics · World War II reporting · radio and television news
- ISBN-13
- 9780471477532 (Hardcover)9781684421480 (Paperback)
About the author
BOB EDWARDS was a broadcast journalist who hosted NPR’s Morning Edition for nearly 25 years. His books include Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism and Fridays with Red.
Edwards won the George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Award for radio journalism, and the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in November 2004.
Edwards earned a B.S. from the University of Louisville and a master’s degree from American University in Washington, D.C. He joined NPR in 1974, co-hosting All Things Considered before launching Morning Edition in 1979. After leaving NPR in 2004, he hosted programs on Sirius XM Radio.