Bob Woodward: a reporter and editor at the Washington Post whose investigative articles with Carl Bernstein’s helped break the Watergate scandal in the early 1970s; Woodward went on to write a series of book detailing the inner workings of Washington. John F. Kennedy spent his short, three years as president using his skill as a speaker to deliver the precisely crafted words of his aids. Mike Royko: a Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago columnist since the early 1960s and author of an unauthorized biography of Mayor Richard J. Daley, Boss. Pete Hamill: reporter, columnist, editor, memoirist and novelist who, beginning with a job as a reporter at the New York Post in 1960, reported, edited or wrote for most of New York City’s newspapers and many magazines. William F. Buckley, Jr.: editor, columnist, author, and TV host who founded the National Review in 1955. Bruce Bliven, 1957-1960. He would stay with NBC until the 1980s, when he moved over to ABC to host This Week, the first of the Sunday morning political roundup shows. Menu Home; Contact ; draft. Sports journalism continued to grow in prominence throughout the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. One of those at the forefront was Tom Wolfe. As the nation's involvement in Vietnam escalated, and involved more of the nation's youth, college students protested the war and the draft. Cronkite's coverage of the assassination of president Kennedy in 1963 helped make him the most trusted journalist in America. Rolling Stone's focus on music and youth-culture issues made it an instant success, and a powerful political voice in a turbulent era. In the 1950s, Cronkite helped invent the role of the anchorman. Here the reporters surveyed, researched, interviewed, … The counter-culture also manifested itself in the political arena, where college students and Civil Rights activists took on what they perceived as an oppressive and unjust political system. A nation still mourning the assassination of its president was ready for distraction in early 1964. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others look on as Lyndon Jonhson signs the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Walters would not receive official recogniztion as co-anchor of the Today Show until after McGee's death in 1974. Hannah Arendt: a political thinker, author of The Origins of Totalitarianism, who reported the Eichmann trial for the New Yorker; those articles were turned into the book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil in 1963. In final decades of the century, some conservative politicians and media pundits charged PBS and NPR with having a liberal bias, and attempted to end federal funding for the organization. Joan Didion: a literary journalist, novelist and memoirist, who helped invent “new journalism” in the 1960s and whose judgmental but superbly written articles have become standard texts in … In the early 1970s, Halberstam would publish The Best and the Brightest, a rebuke of the Vietnam policies set forth by Kennedy and LBJ. They revolved around civil rights, gender equality and diversity in the newsroom. Awesome Woman and a Journalist of the 1800s and Early 1900s. Journalism has always been conditioned by a series of institutional constraints: the state, the party system, the For the first time in history, a presidential debate is televised on national television. Meyer Berger: a fine columnist and feature writer for the New York Times, where he worked, except for a short stretch at the New Yorker, from 1928 to 1959; Berger won the Pulitzer Prize for his report on the murderer Howard Unruh. Kennedy died later that afternoon. Kenneth Allsop – reporter for Tonight in the 1960s. Richard Harding Davis: journalist and fiction writer, whose powerfully written reports on major events, such as the Spanish-American War and the First World War, made him one of the best-known journalists of his time. Dorothy Thompson: her reporting on Hitler and the rise of Nazism led to her being expelled from Germany in 1934; also a widely syndicated newspaper columnist, a rare female voice in radio news in the 1930s and the “second most influential woman in America,” after Eleanor Roosevelt, according to Time magazine in 1939. Kennedy faced equally monumental challenges domestically. He died in 1973. Cronkite earned credibility when he criticized the Vietnam War publicly as the decade continued. Joseph Mitchell: a staff writer for the New Yorker from 1938 until his death in 1996, who won acclaim for his off-beat profiles, collected in the book Up in the Old Hotel and Other Stories. Langston Hughes: a poet and playwright, Hughes also wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Defender from 1942 to 1962. He is quoted with the saying "war makes for great circulation." inveSTigaTive jouRnaliSm in The 1960S During the Cold War, journalism was used as the cover for spies on both sides of the American–Russian divide. Known as the "Sitting Buddha," Thomas was known for saying "Thank you, Mr. President" at the end of every press conference. Marlene Sanders: the first female television correspondent in Vietnam, the first female anchor on a US network television evening newscast and the first female vice president of ABC News. In the early- and mid-60s, Civil Rights activists organized marches and protests around the country. John Steinbeck: a Nobel-Prize-winning novelist and journalist who exposed the hardships of Okie migrant camp life in the San Francisco News in 1936, covered World War II and wrote newspaper columns in the 1950s.