Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, October 1st, 2004
Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast Journalism. Bob Edwards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004. 174 pp. $19.95 hbk.
It is an intriguing idea: one of modern radio journalism's most important figures writing about the man who did more than any other to shape broadcast news. In Edward R. Murrow and the Birlli of Broadcast Journalism, the concept largely works. Through this brief volume, Bob Edwards, the twenty-five-year host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition, offers an admiring but balanced portrait of perhaps the most significant journalist in broadcast history.
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