Cronkite

[kron-kahyt, krong‑]

noun

1. Walter, 1916–2009, U.S. newscaster.

Example Sentences

CBS News will learn a lot about its future next week when Bari Weiss, founder of the upstart news site the Free Press, is expected to enter the hallowed halls where Walter Cronkite and Mike Wallace once roamed.

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Jon Stewart, the Walter Cronkite of Comedy Central’s fake newsroom, says so every time “The Daily Show” is hailed for its perceived trustworthiness in the news and information space.

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Walter Cronkite once said to me privately something that he often said publicly: “We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.”

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He aggressively covered the family separation crisis at the southern border in 2018, which earned a Cronkite Award.

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CBS earned the Tiffany nickname under Bill Paley, the network head responsible for empowering Edward R. Murrow to take on Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy and Walter Cronkite to define the caliber of journalism that led to the birth of “60 Minutes.”

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