Cronkite
Americannoun
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When Walter Cronkite anchored the “CBS Evening News,” roughly 13% of Americans tuned in nightly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Many of CBS’s most well-known newscasters, including Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid, who reported on the fall of Paris in 1940 live to Americans started on radio.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
During that time, many journalists chose to leave the CBS newsroom -- once home to famed US journalists Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow and a long reputation for excellence in American journalism.
From Barron's ● Mar. 2, 2026
Legendary “CBS Evening News” anchor Walter Cronkite was famous for telling viewers what was happening, why it mattered and who was responsible.
From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2026
The New Yorker sneered at the error, Ogden Nash wrote a poem about it, Walter Cronkite refused to say it on the air, and Strunk and White declared it illiterate.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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