Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist whose vivid World War II radio reports and later television journalism helped shape modern broadcast news.

London Blitz: The German bombing campaign against Britain, especially London, from 1940 to 1941. Murrow’s live reports from London brought the Blitz to American radio audiences.
Broadcast journalism: Journalism produced for transmission by radio, television, or digital broadcast. Murrow’s work helped establish the conventions of reporting through sound and image.
William L. Shirer: An American journalist and CBS correspondent who reported from Europe before and during World War II. Shirer and Murrow were central figures in CBS’s European reporting network.
RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award: An annual journalism award presented by the Radio Television Digital News Association for outstanding electronic journalism. The award bears Murrow’s name and recognizes reporting associated with his professional ideals.
This Is London: A 1943 book collecting Edward R. Murrow’s broadcasts and reporting from wartime Britain. The collection preserves the broadcast style that made Murrow famous during the war.
Radio news: News reporting and programming transmitted to audiences by radio. Murrow’s wartime reports made radio news an intimate form of eyewitness journalism.
Fred W. Friendly: An American radio and television producer who collaborated with Edward R. Murrow on major CBS programs. Friendly produced See It Now and helped shape Murrow’s influential television journalism.
Murrow speech: A 1958 address by Edward R. Murrow warning that television was neglecting its capacity to inform the public. Murrow used his own prominence to criticize television’s preference for entertainment over serious reporting.
Harvest of Shame: A 1960 CBS television documentary exposing the harsh working and living conditions of migrant farmworkers in the United States. Murrow’s documentary used direct testimony and stark images to expose a domestic injustice.
Live reporting: Journalism transmitted as events unfold, with little or no delay between observation and broadcast. His reports from Britain conveyed the uncertainty and immediacy of events under attack.

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