NEW YORK -- Ed Bliss, a journalist and teacher who spent 25 years at CBS News during its golden era and served as a producer, editor and writer for Edward R. Murrow, has died. He was 90. He died Nov. 25 of a pulmonary disorder at a Virginia hospital. Bliss mentored a generation of journalism students and co-authored Writing News for Broadcast (1971), which many in the business consider to be the definitive book on news writing. He also was the first news editor on "CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite." Bliss joined CBS News 1943 as part of the second generation of the so-called Murrow Boys, who worked closely with the iconic newsman alongside such other broadcasting immortals as Alexander Kendrick, George Poll, Marvin Kalb, Daniel Schorr and David Schoenbrun. It was Bliss who handed Cronkite the famous dispatch on Nov. 22, 1963, from which Cronkite informed the country that President Kennedy had died. In 1968, Bliss left CBS to begin the broadcast journalism program at American University in Washington, where he taught a new generation of news people. Bliss won many honors during his lifetime, including the Paul White Award from the Radio Television News Directors Assn. He graduated from Yale University in 1935 and worked in newspapers for Scripps Howard in Ohio and Texas before coming to CBS. He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Anne and Tom Mascolino, of Washington.
- 12/2/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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