Posted by The journalism industry is in grief. Veteran reporter and news commentator Daniel Schorr died at a hospital in Wahington. His family did not disclose the cause of his death.
Schorr started his journalism career in 1953 when Edward R. Murrow asked him to work for CBS. His first assignment was to become a correspondent in Moscow and he was able to convince Nikita Khruschnev to allow CBS to be the first to interview him. After his stint as a correspondent, Schorr became a member of the CBS News Bureau in Washington.
He was the leader of the coverage of CBS on the Watergate Scandal. He was able to get a copy of President Nixon’s enemy list and was surprised to find him on the seventeenth slot of the list. He read his name in the same cold manner that he read the other names live on TV and said: Number seventeen, Schorr, Daniel … a real media enemy.”
“He had a great way of irritating government officials because he always came up with the truth. He came up with these stories. People couldn’t figure out how he got it.” said CBS News Chief Washington Correspondent Bob Schieffer.
According to Katie Couric, Schorr worked as a commentator for more than sixty years and spent twenty-four years at CBS. Schorr joined CNN in 1989 and transferred to NPR in the middle of the nineties. He worked with NPR until the time of his death.
