CBS News icon Walter Cronkite pushed ethical boundaries "Broadcast News"-style, befriended rock stars and reneged on a job offer from Edward R. Murrow, according to biographer Douglas Brinkley. By ...

This informative and engaging bio explores the life of the famed CBS newsman in front of and behind the camera - his career, politics, influence and quirky friendships. By Andy Lewis By Douglas ...

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS ...

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. was born in St. Joseph, Mo., on Nov. 4, 1916, to Walter Leland Cronkite, a dentist, and the former Helen Lena Fritsche. He became fascinated with journalism in high school, ...

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. In Cronkite, his hefty new biography, author and historian Douglas Brinkley tackles the “most trusted man in ...

Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication is lobbying to get its namesake’s face on a postage stamp. Christopher Callahan, the school’s dean, started ...

After an astonishing concession to a sitting president, the country’s most popular television news program faces the prospect of new ownership and a chilled environment for the First Amendment. By ...