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Columbia Journalism Review content tagged Edward R. Murrow

1. August 26, 2011 06:00 AM

   Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)

   What happened to TV news?

   By Michael Meyer

   The marketing team behind Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), a biopic of Edward R. Murrow set largely amid the public duel between the broadcast pioneer and the mildly outspoken anti-communist Senator Joseph McCarthy, decided to go with a poignant, anachronistically sincere Murrow quotation for its movie posters: “We will not walk in fear of one another.” Not bad, but...

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2. October 19, 2011 04:42 PM

   Norman Corwin, 1910-2011

   Remembering a recently deceased broadcast pioneer

   By Michael Antonoff

   It was only fitting that I learned of Norman Corwin's death from the CBS Radio World News Roundup, a program younger than Corwin despite its 1938 debut. By that year, Corwin was already entrenched as CBS Radio's resident poet/playwright/producer, a one-man workhorse who peppered the airwaves with thought-provoking plays at a time when fascism was on the rise. A contemporary...

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3. August 16, 2012 03:32 PM

   Review: The Year of the Gadfly

   A teenage journalist finds herself in Jennifer Miller’s resonant first novel

   By Matt B. Weir

   The Year of the Gadfly | By Jennifer Miller | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 384 pages, $24.00 “Even Edward R. Murrow sometimes spoke in clichés, which only proves how ubiquitous and insidious they are,” quips Iris Dupont, intrepid teenage reporter, near the beginning of Jennifer Miller’s promising debut novel, The Year of the Gadfly. Iris, a winning and vulnerable teen...

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