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

During the Iran hostage crisis, Cronkite incorporated a tally of the crisis into his nightly sign-off.

Cronkite crafted a compromise: He “came up with an alternative sign off, the one he’d use for the next 19 years: ‘And that’s the way it is.’ ...

Walter Cronkite Set for Final Send-Off July 23, 2009 / 8:17 AM EDT / CBS/AP The "most trusted man in America" is set to be laid to rest.

From the CBS News archives, legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite signs off for the final time on the "CBS Evening News." Cronkite manned the anchor desk from April, 16, 1962 until March 6, 1981.

And that’s the way it was. Presidents, friends, news luminaries and an astronaut paid tribute to legendary CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite yesterday at a memorial service at Lincoln Center. Cro… ...

Cronkite served as the CBS Evening News anchorman for 19 years before his final sign off on March 6, 1981. He died on July 17, 2009, in New York, after a long illness, with his family at his side.

Once known as “the most trusted man in America” Cronkite anchored the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981 with his trademark sign-off, “And that’s the way it is…” ...

Walter Cronkite Dead at 92 Legendary newsman took America through everything from the assassination of President Kennedy to the Vietnam War and the Apollo space missions.

As anchorman of the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981, Walter Cronkite was the man to whom millions of Americans turned each day to learn what had happened in their world. It was “Uncle Walter ...

Former CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite, often called “the most trusted man in America,” died Friday at 92. Beginning with President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, the ic… ...