The Grim Reaper came for Daniel Schorr on 7/23/10. "Veteran reporter Daniel Schorr, the last of Edward R. Murrow's legendary CBS team still fully active in journalism, currently interprets national and international events as senior news analyst for NPR." -quote from this article. In 2002, Boston public radio station WBUR and Boston University instituted a Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize of $5,000 for an "individual news work of significance and quality by a young journalist in public radio."
Daniel Schorr, long time writer and on Richard Nixon's 'enemies list' has passed away at the age of 92.
His death has been reported as a result of a brief illness. Schorr's career covered more thansix long decades- beginning in print and than leading up to 23 years with ABC". More of his bio can be found here.
"Daniel Louis Schorr (August 31, 1916 – July 23, 2010)[1][2] was an American journalist who covered world news for more than 60 years. He was most recently a Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio (NPR). Schorr won three Emmy Awards for his television journalism." For entire Wikipaedia bio, click here.
If you loved this journalist as I did, go to this site and listen to the entire Fresh Air intervierw.
We have lost a National Treasure, a journalist to be modeled after and admired, a mensch, and one of the rare journalists today whom you could trust... Unfortunately, as in marketing, the middle man (the producers) get in the way.
No comments:
Post a Comment