Walter Cronkite
“CBS Mornings” co-host Gayle King has been chosen to receive the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism from Arizona State University.
The man who designed the spacecraft in the “Star Wars” films has died. Colin Cantwell was 90. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Cantwell’s partner, Sierra Dall, confirmed that he died at his home in Colorado on Saturday.
NEW YORK (AP) — A generation ago, the likes of Walter Cronkite, Peter Jennings and Diane Sawyer were the heroes of television news.
NEW YORK (AP) — CBS News stayed within its ranks on Wednesday to name correspondent Jeff Glor as anchor of the “CBS Evening News,” the flagship broadcast that was led by Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather in the past but is now a distant third in the television ratings.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In 2016, an Iraqi-American artist sat down with Bahjat Abdulwahed — the so-called “Walter Cronkite of Baghdad” — with the idea of launching a radio project that would be part documentary, part radio play and part variety show.