( Edward Roscoe Murrow 1908–65)
a US radio and television journalist who has been called ‘the father of television journalism’. He was head of the CBS radio European Bureau during World War II . In the 1950s, he had two programmes on CBS television, See It Now and Person to Person . In the first he examined current affairs, and in the second he talked to famous people in their homes. Murrow later became head of the United States Information Agency (1961–3).