Martha Rountree

Martha Rountree was an American journalist and television producer who co-created and produced Meet the Press, a pioneering televised political interview program.

Lawrence E. Spivak: An American journalist and publisher who co-created Meet the Press and later moderated it. Rountree’s co-creator and the program’s long-serving publisher and moderator.
Meet the Press: An American television program in which journalists interview political and public figures. The interview program Rountree co-created and produced.
Television journalism: Journalism produced for television, combining reporting with visual and spoken presentation. Her program helped define how political reporting could work on television.
Face the Nation: An American Sunday television program featuring interviews with political and public figures. CBS launched this competing interview program after Meet the Press established the format.
Tim Russert: An American journalist who moderated Meet the Press from 1991 to 2008. His tenure shows how the program Rountree launched developed into a prominent Sunday institution.
American Mercury: An American magazine founded in 1924 by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Rountree worked at the magazine before developing her broadcast journalism career.
Sunday morning talk show: A television program, usually on Sunday morning, built around interviews and discussion of current affairs. Meet the Press became a model for this recurring broadcast format.
The McLaughlin Group: An American television program featuring a moderator and panelists debating current political issues. Its panel debate format differs from the one-on-one and group interviews Rountree helped popularize.
Eleanor Roosevelt: An American political figure and former first lady who became a public commentator and advocate. Her 1947 appearance was among the notable early interviews that established the show’s reach.
Radio broadcasting: The transmission of audio programs to receivers through radio waves or wired networks. Meet the Press began as a radio program before its television adaptation.

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Lawrence SpivakRelated: Her partnership with Spivak began the program as a radio broadcast.