(1908 – 1965) One of the most respected and influential American radio and television journalists.

Joining the Columbia Broadcasting System in 1935, he went to London to direct their European Bureau two years later, vividly reporting the rise of the Nazis and the Battle of Britain. Translating his CBS radio series Hear it Now to a new medium, he defined quality television news through his investigative magazine See It Now (1951–5). Here, his reputation for accuracy and objectivity were crucial when he exposed Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist tactics in 1954. Murrow’s later Person to Person (CBS, 1953–61), where he interviewed celebrities in their homes, launched another tradition of infotainment.