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Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents who were hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and nicknamed "Murrow's Boys."
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Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was...
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Jul 10, 1992 · Eric Sevareid, a radio and television correspondent who became one of the country's most respected reporters and commentators, died yesterday at his home in Washington. He was 79 years old. He...
Arnold Eric Sevareid (November 26, 1912 – July 9, 1992) was an American author and CBS news journalist from 1939 to 1977. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents that was hired by CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow and nicknamed " Murrow's Boys ."
- Early Interest in Press
- Began Career in Journalism
- On The Front Lines
- Television Brought New Challenges
- Books
Sevareid was born on November 26, 1912, in Velva, North Dakota. His parents, Alfred and Clare (Hougen) Sevareid, like many of the wheat farmers and other inhabitants of the area, were of Norwegian descent. Alfred Sevareid was college educated and a bank president. Clare, who had a love of classical music and the plays of William Shakespeare, devote...
Sevareid started with the Minneapolis Journal as a copy boy and within two months was promoted to reporter. Working full time for the Journal during his freshman year, he enrolled in night classes in economics and political science at the University of Minnesota. In the fall of 1932 he became a full-time student, supporting himself with articles fo...
Living in France with his wife and their newborn twins Michael and Peter on the eve of the Nazi occupation, Sevareid was the last U.S. reporter to make a live broadcast from the vicinity of Paris before that city fell to Germany. Sending Lois and his children back to safety in New YorkCity, Sevareid moved on to Tours and Bordeaux, and he was the fi...
The arrival of television in the 1950s signaled a new era in news reporting, and although Sevareid continued to view himself as a writer—he published articles in a number of news magazines and was the author of a weekly newspaper column—he quickly became a media celebrity. He was featured in Murrow's 1951 documentary See It Now. In 1961 he narrated...
Gates, Gary Paul, Air Time: The Inside Story of CBS News,Harper & Row, 1978. McKerns, Joseph P., editor, Biographical Dictionary of American Journalism,Greenwood Press, 1987. Newsmakers,Gale, 1993. Schroth, Raymond A., The American Journey of Eric Sevareid,Steerforth Press, 1995. Sevareid, Eric, Not So Wild a Dream,1946. Sevareid, Eric, This Is Eri...
Jul 10, 1992 · Eric Sevareid, whose crusty evening news commentaries punctuated the workdays of millions of Americans, and who perhaps will be remembered best for his impassioned oratory during the Vietnam...
Jul 10, 1992 · Eric Sevareid, who died at 79 Thursday in Washington, inspired a kind of instinctive trust with his touch of solemnity, his disregard for TV glitz and his refusal to talk down to viewers. He...
Jul 10, 1992 · Eric Sevareid, one of the scholar/philosophers who helped Edward R. Murrow invent broadcast journalism and then raised it in 38 years with CBS to an eloquent art form, died early Thursday at...
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