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Rather dedicated his award to famed broadcast journalist and executive Fred W. Friendly, who died last week, Friendly produced for legendary journalist Edward R. Murrow and was president of CBS News during the network's glory days...
With a tearful tribute to his broadcasting hero, Dan Rather, the anchor and managing editor of the CBS Evening News, accepted the Goldsmith Career Award for Excellence in Journalism last night at the ARCO Forum...
Rather later recounted the hour-by-hour decision making process that CBS News executives undertook Wednesday, Jan. 18, theday the Lewinsky story broke...
Fred W. Friendly, the esteemed former CBS News president who collaborated with Edward R. Murrow on some of TV's most groundbreaking documentaries, died Tuesday in New York after a series of strokes. He was 82. Friendly was the behind-the-scenes force on such documentaries as "Harvest of Shame" in 1961, about migrant farm workers, and the Murrow "See It Now" report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. "He was my No. 1 cheerleader back to legitimacy," Geraldo Rivera, who was a student of Friendly's at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, told the Associated...
...earned quite a loyal following among the on-line community. He claims editorial independence from "old media" interests and a dedication to printing hot stories before anyone else. Quite a step up, it would seem, from his former post as manager of the gift shop at CBS's Los Angeles studios...