1908-1965
Television News Reporter

Early Career in Radio.

Edward R. Murrow virtually invented modern radio and television news. Renowned for his thoroughness, fairness, and curiously charismatic seriousness, Murrow began his career at CBS News in 1935 not as a broadcaster but as the CBS "director of talks," or educational programs He served as CBS representative in Europe beginning in 1937; he began his radio broadcasting career by covering the forced merger of Austria with Germany in 1938, beaming reports of the entrance of German troops into Vienna. He gained notoriety for his dramatic radio coverage of the Battle of Britain. But his television documentary news programs, "See It Now" and "CBS Reports," made him a fixture of 1950s television. In the public eye Murrow became the very ideal of a television newsman and a prime source of the great reputation of CBS News.

Broadcaster.

Not trained as a...