Last Updated: 04 Feb, 2023 | Views: 389
Age: 92
Profession: Journalist
Other Profession(s): Television Presenter, News Anchor, Radio Broadcaster
Famous For: CBS Evening News
Higher Education: University of Texas at Austin
About (Profile/Biography):
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was a television anchor for the CBS Evening News about 19 years, from 1962 to 1981. He was an American broadcast journalist. After already being named "the most respected man in America" in a poll, he was frequently referred to as such during the 1960s and 1970s. Numerous awards were given to Cronkite, including two Peabody Awards, an Emmy Award, a George Polk Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the President Jimmy Carter in 1972. He dropped out to concentrate on journalism, not returning for the fall term in 1935.
Career:
In 1935: Cronkite started a number of newspaper reporting positions covering news and sports before graduating from college in the fall of his junior year.
In 1937: Cronkite joined United Press International in Kansas City.
In 1950: He was again recruited by Murrow to join CBS News' TV division.
From 1953 to 1957: Cronkite was the host of the CBS programme You Are There, which used a news broadcast style to portray historical events.
In 1962: Cronkite anchored CBS's nightly feature newscast after Douglas Edwards left the network.
Achievements and Awards:
In 1970: He received the George Polk Award for freedom of the press.
In 1977: Cronkite was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.
In 1995: Cronkite was awarded the Ischia International Journalism Award.
Unknown Facts:
He was honoured with the construction of the cutting-edge journalism education complex in 2008, right in the middle of ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus.
During the 1969 to 1972 Apollo expeditions, Cronkite was presented with Moon rock samples from the early expeditions.
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