The Murrow Boys: Pioneers in the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism by Lynne Olson & Stanley Cloud

Author:Lynne Olson & Stanley Cloud [Olson, Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Undefined
ISBN: 0395680840
Published: 2009-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

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As the Allies pushed the Germans back, the competition among the Boys only intensified. There were so many fronts, so many stories, so many reporters! The Boys had to compete not only with each other and outside rivals but with CBS reinforcements sent over periodically from New York — announcers and newscasters like Bob Trout, Ned Calmer, John Charles Daly, and Douglas Edwards. Nor did they any longer enjoy the luxury of spinning out the carefully crafted, colorful details of a story for three or four minutes. Now their slots on the morning and evening news roundups were two minutes, tops. The Boys were seeing the future.

The evening roundup was the real prize, because the sponsor paid a correspondent fifty dollars every time he appeared on it. Bill Shadel discovered the hard way just how valued the prize was. When he was hired, Murrow urged him to try to get on both the morning and evening roundups as much as possible so that listeners back home would start recognizing his name and voice. He tried but was rarely able to get on the evening program. Finally Kay Campbell, Murrow’s secretary, explained to Shadel that other correspondents often persuaded the boss to bump him from the schedule and put them on instead.

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