Once a voice of authority, the decline of trust in the press has mirrored the rise of a more fragmented, polarized media ...

It was important to Cronkite to support his colleagues in news, Graham said. “Walter Cronkite was very much a creature of traditional reporting journalism — you know, the UPI background, the start in ...

At a news conference before he spoke at an annual banquet sponsored by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce, renowned newsman Walter Cronkite, who broke down in on-air tears when reporting the ...

When Cronkite signed off this last report on March 6, 1981 with “That’s the way it is” the estimated audience viewing his final on-air broadcast was said to be 36 million households.

Former CBS anchor Walter Cronkite died Friday evening with his family at his side after a long illness.

Legendary CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite has died at age 92. It had been reported recently that the retired news anchor was quite ill, so his death from cerebral vascular disease was not a ...

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was born Nov. 4, 1916, in St. Joseph, Mo. His reporting career began in the 1930s as a campus correspondent for the Houston Press.

Rather, who replaced Cronkite at the anchor desk, called Cronkite "a giant of the journalistic craft." "Walter loved reporting and delivering the news, and he was superb at both," he said.

The winners of this year’s recipients of the Walter Cronkite Awards had a common theme: Combating misinformation. So when award sponsor USC Annenberg’s Norman Lear Center held a National Press ...

“We are so pleased to see Jelani, James and Anya’s investigative reporting be recognized by the Walter Cronkite Awards,” says Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE’s executive producer.

Today is the 43rd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the Supreme Court case that legalized abortion. Take a look back at when Walter Cronkite reported the decision.