Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues and people.

20th-century broadcast journalists

• Edward R. Murrow, CBS News radio correspondent in London Blitz, maker of TV documentaries, noted interviewer
• Walter Cronkite, former United Press correspondent, TV anchor for CBS News in the 50s, 60s
• David Brinkley, television anchor and interview show host on the American networks ABC and NBC
• Peter Jennings, television anchor for ABC
• Jim Lehrer, anchor of The Newshour with Jim Lehrer
• Tom Brokaw, television journalist and former anchor and managing editor of "The NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw."
• Dan Rather, succeeded Cronkite as managing editor and primary anchor of the CBS Evening News
• Vernon Corea, a pioneering radio journalist and announcer with Radio Ceylon/SLBC and the BBC
• Sorious Samura, CNN TV documentary maker from Sierra Leone
• Fritz Spiegl, popularizer of classical music for the BBC
• Brian Williams, succeeded Brokaw as managing editor and anchor of "The NBC Nightly News."
• Lowell Bergman, a television producer for the CBS news magazine 60 Minutes best known for investigating the tobacco industry.