Who was the CBS News anchor-man known as 'the man Americans most trust'?
"to at least the 1991–92 season. Couric began working at CBS News in July 2006. During her first broadcast as anchor on September 5, 2006, a new graphics package and set, and a new theme composed by Academy Award-winning composer James Horner were introduced. Similar graphics and music would be introduced on other CBS News programs such as ""Up to the Minute"", ""CBS Morning News"" and ""The Early Show"" throughout the month of October. A new opening title sequence was designed, with Walter Cronkite providing the voiceover, replacing Wendell Craig unless a temporary voice-over was needed. Following Cronkite's death months"
"Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the ""CBS Evening News"" for 19 years (1962–1981). During the heyday of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as ""the most trusted man in America"" after being so named in an opinion poll. He reported many events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson's Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy,"
"Cronkite was often cited as the ""most trusted man in America."" After Cronkite's retirement in 1981, Dan Rather became the anchor of ""CBS Evening News"". He was joined by co-anchor Connie Chung from 1993 to 1995. ""ABC Evening News"" began airing in 1953, hosted by John Charles Daly. Daly had been a well-known CBS radio correspondent, though today he is best remembered as the emcee of CBS's long-running game show, ""What's My Line?"", which he hosted while serving as ABC's anchorman. Daly left ABC in 1960 and was succeeded by a frequently expanding list of successors that included John Cameron"
"In the process, Cronkite became ""the most trusted man in America"" according to a Gallup Poll, a status that had first been fostered in November 1963 through his coverage of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In late 1972, Cronkite prodded the show's producers to feature two nights of lengthy explanation on the Watergate scandal, which had been extensively covered by ""The Washington Post"", but had not received major national coverage. After the first half of the report, shown on a Friday, ran for 14 minutes – roughly half of the air time of the broadcast – White House"
"at age 73. Many of his early CBS radio newscasts, including his World War II anchoring of ""World News Today"", memorable broadcasts on D-Day and his ""Andrea Doria"" coverage, remain favorites of old-time radio collectors. Edwards was posthumously elected to the Radio Hall of Fame in 2006. In a 4 hour interview for the Archive of American Television, Walter Cronkite described Edwards as ""a true gentleman... one of the gentlest men I've ever known."" Douglas Edwards Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990) was an American network news television anchor. He anchored CBS's first nightly television news broadcast"
"in a phrase originally used to describe longtime network news anchor Walter Cronkite, ""the most trusted man in America"". On April 28, 2009, during a discussion on torture with Clifford May, Stewart expressed his opinion that former President Harry S. Truman was a war criminal for his use of the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II. He defended his assertion moments later: ""Here's what I think of the atom bombs. I think if you dropped an atom bomb fifteen miles offshore and you said, 'The next one's coming and hitting you', then I would think it's okay. To"
"transmit from a flying airplane and, by some definitions, the first to broadcast a daily news program, creating the news anchorman role. It was Bob Trout in the mid-1930s who passed on to a then-new CBS executive, Edward R. Murrow, the value of addressing the radio audience intimately, as if the announcer was talking to one person. Trout played a key role in Murrow's development as a broadcaster, and the two would remain colleagues until Murrow departed the network in 1961, and friends until Murrow's death in 1965. On Sunday night, March 13, 1938, after Adolf Hitler's Germany had annexed"
"the state of ethics in our current culture, this seems a fitting time to endow a center for the study of ethics, and my university is its fitting home."" Roger Mudd Roger Harrison Mudd (born February 9, 1928) is a retired American broadcast journalist who was a correspondent and anchor for CBS News and NBC News. He worked most recently as the primary anchor for The History Channel. Previously, Mudd was weekend and weekday substitute anchor for the ""CBS Evening News"", the co-anchor of the weekday ""NBC Nightly News"", and the host of the NBC-TV ""Meet the Press,"" and ""American"
"Charles Kuralt Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his ""On the Road"" segments on ""The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite"", and later as the first anchor of ""CBS News Sunday Morning"", a position he held for fifteen years. Kuralt's ""On the Road"" segments were recognized twice with personal Peabody Awards. The first, awarded in 1968, cited those segments as heartwarming and ""nostalgic vignettes""; in 1975, the award was for his work as a U.S. ""bicentennial historian""; his work"
"the craps table betting against the line,"" he said on ""Larry King Live"". ""If government suddenly became inspiring... we would be the happiest people in the world to turn our attention to idiots like, you know, media people, no offense."" In July 2009, ""Time"" magazine held an online poll entitled ""Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America's most trusted newscaster?"" Jon Stewart won with 44% of the vote, 15 points ahead of Brian Williams in second place with 29%. Stewart downplayed the results on the show stating ""It was an Internet poll and I was the 'None"
"Douglas Edwards Douglas Edwards (July 14, 1917 – October 13, 1990) was an American network news television anchor. He anchored CBS's first nightly television news broadcast from 1948–1962, which was later to be titled ""CBS Evening News"". A native of Oklahoma, Edwards grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942, eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast ""The World Today"" as well as ""World News Today"" on Sunday afternoons. Edwards came to CBS, after stints as a newscaster and announcer at WSB in Atlanta, Georgia and WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan. In the mid-1940s, Edwards was host"
"together—in his autobiography. Charles Kuralt Charles Bishop Kuralt (September 10, 1934 – July 4, 1997) was an American journalist. He is most widely known for his long career with CBS, first for his ""On the Road"" segments on ""The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite"", and later as the first anchor of ""CBS News Sunday Morning"", a position he held for fifteen years. Kuralt's ""On the Road"" segments were recognized twice with personal Peabody Awards. The first, awarded in 1968, cited those segments as heartwarming and ""nostalgic vignettes""; in 1975, the award was for his work as a U.S. ""bicentennial"
"bit early. At age 11, Ushery was selected from a statewide search to host the local edition of “Kidsworld,” a nationally syndicated television show. One of his early interviews was with the late Walter Cronkite, the former CBS News anchor once ranked as the most trusted man in America. In what could be considered a prescient scene from that interview, young Ushery sits at the anchor desk. He asked Cronkite, “What kind of person should be a newscaster?” Cronkite responded that a person should have a sense of curiosity. Ushery has said of the interview: “Many have asked if I"
"and 64% of Democrats. A 1964 poll by the Roper Organization asked a similar question about network news, and 71% thought network news was fair. A 1972 poll found that 72% of Americans trusted CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite. According to Jonathan M. Ladd's ""Why Americans Hate the Media and How it Matters"", ""Once, institutional journalists were powerful guardians of the republic, maintaining high standards of political discourse."" That has changed. Gallup Polls since 1997 have shown that most Americans do not have confidence in the mass media ""to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly"". According to Gallup,"
"the future. On March 1, 2016, CBS announced that it had hired former ESPN, NBC Sports and ""Good Morning America"" anchor Josh Elliott to serve as the lead anchor for CBSN. Of the hiring, CBS News president David Rhodes explained that Elliott needed an ""outlet"", going on to say that ""we're going to need from him as much as he can bring in these different areas of reporting and anchoring. It's another reason it's the perfect place for him because it's kind of unlimited. We have some really hard-working people at CBSN, but we don't have enough of them."" Elliott"
"Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American television journalist and author, best known for being the anchor and managing editor of ""NBC Nightly News"" for 22 years (1982–2004). He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: ""The Today Show"", ""NBC Nightly News"", and, briefly, ""Meet the Press"". He now serves as a Special Correspondent for NBC News and works on documentaries for other outlets. Along with competitors Peter Jennings at ABC News and Dan Rather at CBS News, Brokaw was one of the ""Big Three"" news anchors in"
"the Southern United States. In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and his long-time boyfriend Benjamin Maisani had split up. Anderson Cooper Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American journalist, television personality, and author. He is the primary anchor of the CNN news show ""Anderson Cooper 360°"". The program is usually broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live from CNN's studios in Washington, D.C., or on location for breaking news stories. In addition, he is a correspondent for ""60 Minutes"". From September 2011 to May 2013, he also served as host"
"John Charles Daly John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly (February 20, 1914 – February 24, 1991), generally known as John Charles Daly or simply John Daly, was an American radio and television personality, CBS News broadcast journalist, ABC News executive and TV anchor and a game show host, best known as the host and moderator of the CBS television panel show ""What's My Line?"" The second of two brothers, Daly was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, where his American father worked as a geologist. While in Johannesburg Daly attended Marist Brothers College. After his father died of a tropical fever, Daly's"
"press clippings, photographs, and recordings, which was bequeathed to the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Robert Trout Robert Trout (born Robert Albert Blondheim; October 15, 1909 – November 14, 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter, best remembered for his radio work before and during World War II for CBS News. He was regarded by some as the ""Iron Man of Radio"" for his ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as for his stamina, composure, and elocution. Trout was born in Washington, D.C.; he added the Trout name"
"unwanted sexual advances toward three women, one in 1968, two in the 1990s. Brokaw denied the allegations. In response to the allegations, former colleagues Rachel Maddow, Andrea Mitchell, Maria Shriver, Kelly O'Donnell, and 64 others, signed a letter characterizing Brokaw as ""a man of tremendous decency and integrity"". Tom Brokaw Thomas John Brokaw (; born February 6, 1940) is an American television journalist and author, best known for being the anchor and managing editor of ""NBC Nightly News"" for 22 years (1982–2004). He is the only person to have hosted all three major NBC News programs: ""The Today Show"", ""NBC"
"the ""predominant news voice in America."" Affectionately known as ""Uncle Walter,"" he covered many of the important news events of the era so effectively that his image and voice are closely associated with the Cuban Missile Crisis, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Apollo 11 Moon landing, and the Watergate scandal. ""USA Today"" wrote that ""few TV figures have ever had as much power as Cronkite did at his height."" Enjoying the cult of personality surrounding Cronkite in those years, CBS allowed some good-natured fun-poking at its star anchorman in some episodes of the network's"
"of the radio program ""Behind the Scenes at CBS"". In 1948, as CBS's top correspondents and commentators shunned the fledgling medium of television, Edwards was chosen to present regular CBS television news programs and to host CBS's television coverage of the 1948 Democratic and Republican conventions. The term ""anchor"" would not be used until 1952, when CBS News chief Sig Mikelson would use it to describe Walter Cronkite's role in the network's political convention coverage. At first, Edwards would be eclipsed by John Cameron Swayze of NBC News's ""Camel News Caravan"", but he would eventually regain his ratings lead. By"
"Bill Leonard (journalist) William Augustus ""Bill"" Leonard (April 9, 1916 – October 23, 1994) was an American journalist and television executive who served as President of CBS News from 1979 to 1982. Leonard was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, the son of Ruth (Leonard) and James Garfield Moses, a lawyer. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1937, where he worked for the student newspaper, ""The Dartmouth"". He served in the United States Navy until 1945, when he took a position at CBS as the radio anchorman for ""This Is New York"" and its subsequent television show ""Eye"
"Robert Trout Robert Trout (born Robert Albert Blondheim; October 15, 1909 – November 14, 2000) was an American broadcast news reporter, best remembered for his radio work before and during World War II for CBS News. He was regarded by some as the ""Iron Man of Radio"" for his ability to ad lib while on the air, as well as for his stamina, composure, and elocution. Trout was born in Washington, D.C.; he added the Trout name early in his radio career. He entered broadcasting in 1931 as an announcer at WJSV, an independent station in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in"
"secretly given assistance by the producers to arrange the outcome of a supposedly fair competition. Current events, Newscasting and journalism were distinguished by several broadcasting programs by Edward R. Murrow of CBS. Murrow's 1951 ""See It Now"" and ""Person to Person"" showcased important events, places and people in the news. NBC's Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, and CBS' Walter Cronkite also pioneered important news programming. On July 7, 1952, the term ""anchor"" was coined to describe Cronkite's role at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, which marked the first nationally televised convention coverage. Other public interest, and historical programming"
"officials complained to CBS founder William S. Paley. The second half of the report was aired the following Monday, but only for eight minutes. Cronkite was replaced as anchor of the program the Monday after his retirement, March 9, 1981, by then 49-year-old Dan Rather, who had been with CBS News as a correspondent since the early 1960s and later became a correspondent for the network's newsmagazine ""60 Minutes"". Concerns about excessive liberalism in the media were frequently leveled at Rather, the ""CBS Evening News"", CBS News and CBS in general. Some of these concerns dated from Rather's position as"
"Richard Lui Richard Lui () is an American journalist and news anchor for MSNBC and NBC News. Lui anchors Early Today on NBC and is a dayside anchor for MSNBC at 30 Rockefeller Plaza. He was formerly at CNN Worldwide. At CNN Worldwide he became the first Asian American male to anchor a daily, national cable news show when he solo anchored the 10 a.m. hour on CNN Headline News (2007 to 2010). Mediaite ranked Lui among the top 100 in news buzz on its ""Power Grid Influence Index of TV Anchors and Hosts"" and one of ""The 50 Sexiest"
"a team of Tom Brokaw in New York and Roger Mudd in Washington. Brokaw became sole anchor in 1983. CBS launched ""CBS Television News"" in May 1948 to compete against the NBC newsreel programs, hosted on camera by Douglas Edwards, it was renamed ""Douglas Edwards with the News"" in 1950. In 1962, Walter Cronkite landed the anchor seat, which he would hold until 1981, and the program's name was changed to ""CBS Evening News"". On September 2, 1963, the show expanded from 15 to 30 minutes. In the 1970s, ""CBS Evening News"" was the dominant newscast on American television, and"
"broadcast in front of 15.7 million viewers on NBC on December 1, 2004, by saying: By the end of his time as ""Nightly News"" anchor, Brokaw was regarded as the most popular news personality in the United States. ""Nightly News"" had moved into first place in the Nielsen ratings in late 1996 and held on to the spot for the remainder of Brokaw's tenure on the program, placing him ahead of ABC's Peter Jennings and ""World News Tonight"", and CBS's Dan Rather and the ""CBS Evening News"". Along with Jennings and Rather, Brokaw helped usher in the era of the"
"in the ""National Review"", said ""Pelley did fine work"" in the Tenet piece. Alessandra Stanley of ""The New York Times"" wrote, ""the strongest on-air personality of the moment belongs to one of the program's blander faces, Scott Pelley."" On Pelley's second anniversary as anchor of the CBS Evening News, the Baltimore Sun praised Pelley and his team for delivering an ""honest"" newscast. Variety has also lauded Pelley as anchor of the CBS Evening News, saying ""he conveys the sense of someone with genuine gravitas and a commitment to his craft, while appearing cool and unflappable in breaking-news situations."" In February"
"Connie Chung Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1993, she became only the second female to co-anchor a network newscast as part of ""CBS Evening News"". She was removed in 1995 as CBS Evening News co-anchor after a"
"Antonio Mora Antonio Mora (born December 14, 1957, Havana, Cuba) is a multiple Emmy Award winning journalist and television news anchor. He is best known for his years at ABC News, including his four years as the news anchor and chief correspondent for ""Good Morning America"". He was an anchor on Al Jazeera America and its 9pm news broadcast. For the first year and a half of the network's existence, he acted as the host of a show called ""Consider This"". He was the first Hispanic American male to anchor a primetime newscast in Chicago and one of the only"
"anchor of a broadcast network's flagship evening newscast. She stepped down in 2011 and was replaced by Scott Pelley. In 2017, it was abruptly announced that Scott Pelley would be leaving CBS Evening News. Anthony Mason acted as interim anchoruntil Jeff Glor was announced as the new anchor and took over on December 4th, 2017. Scandal enveloped NBC's Brian Williams after controversy over his accounts from the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina, causing NBC to suspend Williams for six months starting February 2015. Lester Holt was named the broadcast's interim anchor, and in June of that year, would become the"