Edward R. Murrow and William Shirer.
Photo Credit: Everett Collection via Alamy and NYT.
There were a few reflective articles published over the weekend concerning the decision to close CBS Radio News at the end of May. One in The New York Times did a good job capturing the importance of CBS Radio in the history of broadcast journalism.
All is not lost. Though radio news no longer works as a business model for the current owners of CBS, the pioneering work of the radio journalists who rose to prominence and set the standards during World War II still lives with us today at places like NPR, the BBC, and within the expanding universe of podcasting.
In fact, the style of remote on scene reports(ROSRs), an approach to eyewitness reporting largely developed during WWII, is the foundational technique many journalists today describe as “story-telling.”
