News and Documentary

Edie Adams on the PBS show, The Best of Kovacs

Alan Alda on Scientific American Frontiers

Robert G. Anderson on the legal implications of 60 Minutes' undercover stories

Robert G. Anderson on the post-production involved on a 60 Minutes story, and on the difference between 60 Minutes and the Evening News

Robert G. Anderson on how he views producing 60 Minutes like a football coach

Robert G. Anderson on how news reporting has changed over the years

Charlie Andrews on writing for Today

Charlie Andrews on writing and producing The Morning Show with Dick Van Dyke and Walter Cronkite

Charlie Andrews on producing The Morning Show with Dick Van Dyke (Part 1)

Peter Arnett on broadcasting, along with Bernard Shaw and John Holliman, from the Al Rashid Hotel the night of the American bombing of of Baghdad which marked the start of the Gulf War

Peter Arnett on using words rather than images to describe the action on the ground in Baghdad the first day of the Gulf War, and on dealing with Iraqi security

Hank Azaria on producing and directing the documentary series Fatherhood

Bob Banner on directing Garroway at Large 

Bob Banner on directing Garroway at Large

Bob Banner on working on Wide Wide World

Erik Barnouw on directing the television documentary Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

Erik Barnouw on the broadcast and subsequent life of his television documentary Hiroshima Nagasaki August, 1945

Joe Behar on directing Pat Weaver's Wide Wide World

Lowell Bergman on working for 20/20

Lowell Bergman on reporting for ABC World News Tonight and Nightline

Lowell Bergman on reporting for ABC News and dealing with media savvy subjects

Lowell Bergman on producing for 20/20 and Nightline

Lowell Bergman on producing for 60 Minutes (Part 1)

Lowell Bergman on producing for 60 Minutes (Part 2)

Ted Bergmann on DuMont's coverage of the Army-McCarthy Hearings

Walter Bernstein on writing for You Are There while blacklisted

Walter Bernstein on other writers on You Are There; on the show's correspondent/hosts, the show's veiled criticisms of McCarthyism, and the show's move from New York to Los Angeles

Walter Bernstein on writing his first non-Blacklist television script -- possibly the reboot of You Are There

Tom Bettag on his time as a producer for CBS Morning News at one point anchored by Sally Quinn

Tom Bettag on his time as a producer on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Tom Bettag on producing CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Tom Bettag on executive producing ABC News Nightline

Tom Bettag on executive producing ABC News Nightline

Wade Bingham on joining CBS News

Wade Bingham on covering the Korean War as a cameraman for CBS News

Wade Bingham on shooting for CBS News

Wade Bingham on covering international news stories as a cameraman for CBS News

Wade Bingham on covering international news stories as a cameraman for CBS News

Wade Bingham on being an international cameraman for CBS News

Wade Bingham on being cameraman for the CBS News series The Twentieth Century

Wade Bingham on being cameraman for the CBS News series CBS Reports

Wade Bingham on working as a cameraman on various CBS news programs including The Twentieth Century and 60 Minutes

Wade Bingham on shooting stories for 60 Minutes and CBS Reports

Wade Bingham on shooting stories for CBS Reportsand 60 Minutes

Linda Bell Blue on producing Hard Copy

Linda Bell Blue on producing Entertainment Tonight

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on working on the pilot episode of See It Now and meeting host Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on the stories and footage shot for See It Now

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on her work editing specific episodes of See It Now - on Milo Radulovich, Senator McCarthy, and Annie Lee Moss

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on editing for See It Now with Edward R. Murrow, as well as other CBS News programs

Mili Lerner Bonsignori on the content, format, and memorable episodes of CBS Reports

Anthony Bourdain on his first TV series, A Cook's Tour

Anthony Bourdain on hosting Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

Anthony Bourdain on the series The Mind of a Chef

Anthony Bourdain on hosting Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

Ed Bradley on getting his first on-camera interview at WCBS, and on that station instituting a new style of interviewing as a result

Ed Bradley on keeping his personal opinions about war out of the reporting on the Vietnam conflict

Ed Bradley on how news was filed from Vietnam

Ed Bradley on access to the military while covering Vietnam

Ed Bradley on being the "number two" man covering the White House for CBS behind Bob Schieffer

Ed Bradley on his concept of the television documentary as he became head correspondent of CBS Reports

Ed Bradley on former 60 Minutes executive producer Don Hewitt

Ed Bradley on notable stories for 60 Minutes: Laurence Olivier, Little Richard, schizophrenia, Haiti; on his diverse interests in story ideas; on convincing people to appear on 60 Minutes

Ed Bradley on realizing the reach and impact of 60 Minutes after airing the "boat people" story in 1979

Ed Bradley on professional standards in broadcast journalism

David Brinkley on co-anchoring The Huntley-Brinkley Report

David Brinkley on anchoring David Brinkley's Journal

David Brinkley on anchoring This Week with David Brinkley

Tom Brokaw on reporting for various NBC News series

Tom Brokaw on anchoring Today

Tom Brokaw on anchoring NBC Nightly News

James L. Brooks on being a page for CBS News

Frances Buss Buch on directing the magazine show Vanity Fair

Harvey Bullock on working with Dave Garroway on the Today  show and on meeting his wife while working on the show

Documentarian Ken Burns on developing his approach to using photographs in documentaries during the development of Brooklyn Bridge

Ken Burns on the documentary genre and how he'd like to be remembered

Documentarian Ken Burns on the power of television

Ken Burns the "Ken Burns effect" and his documentary style

Ken Burns on the components of documentary including selecting a subject and the process of interviewing

Robert Caminiti on his experiences working for NBC News and his lifelong interest in politics

Charles Cappleman on working on Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person

Stan Chambers on reporting at the scene of the 1949 Kathy Fiscus tragedy -- a story that was followed nationwide

Stan Chambers the conclusion of the 1949 Kathy Fiscus tragedy and some of the details of the coverage as well as the influence it had for how television covered live news events

Stan Chambers on KTLA's remote coverage of the local Southern California troops leaving for Korea and returning from duty 

Stan Chambers on anchoring KTLA's evening news in 1958 (and using an improvised prompting system)

Stan Chambers on KTLA's invention and use of the first news helicopter, the "telecopter" in 1958

Stan Chambers on covering the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968

Stan Chambers on KTLA's breaking the news story of the Rodney King beating by Los Angeles police officers

Stan Chambers on the process of covering local news

Stan Chambers on news coverage's evolution throughout his career

Stan Chambers on a photo of the maiden voyage of KTLA's telecopter

Marge Champion on mishaps on live television and appearing on Person to Person

Cyd Charisse on being interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person

Connie Chung on interviews when she was co-anchoring CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Connie Chung on co-anchoring CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Connie Chung on getting on-air on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and working with Cronkite

Connie Chung on getting hired at CBS News

Nick Clooney on anchoring local television news for WKRT Cincinnati

Nick Clooney on memorable stories he covered while anchoring local television news for WKRT Cincinnati

Nick Clooney on becoming news co-anchor for KNBC Los Angeles

Nick Clooney on how news reporting has changed over the years

Nick Clooney on action reporting in the news and the then-current style of news

Andy Cohen on booking Mariah Carey for The CBS Early Show

Andy Cohen on how he worked his way up from intern to Senior Producer at CBS News

Andy Cohen on interning at the CBS News show, CBS This Morning and interviewing Robin Williams

Andy Cohen on how he learned the "Bravo wink" from working at 48 Hours

Andy Cohen on producing a 48 Hours piece on Nicholas Sparks and how his philosophy of using intensely personal moments in reality shows has changed since

John Conte on KMIR's news department

Bill Conti on writing music for ABC News and expected music cues

Bill Conti on what news programs should sound like

Bill Conti on contributing music to Nightline, Our World, and World News Tonight

Joan Ganz Cooney on the importance of documentaries

Anderson Cooper on being a correspondent for Channel One News

Anderson Cooper on his time as a correspondent for ABC News

Anderson Cooper on anchoring ABC News' World News Now

Anderson Cooper on being a correspondent for 20/20 Downtown

Anderson Cooper on fill-in anchoring at CNN 

Anderson Cooper on hosting Anderson Cooper 360  (Part 1)

Anderson Cooper on being a correspondent on 60 Minutes  

Anderson Cooper on anchoring Anderson Cooper 360 (Part 2)

Anderson Cooper on hosting CNN's New Year's Eve Live

Katie Couric on her first experience as an on-screen reporter and CNN President Reese Schonfeld's reaction

Katie Couric on her debut as an anchor at WTVJ Miami

Katie Couric on her rise to working on Today and anchoring CBS Evening News

Judith Crist on Al Morgan inviting her to be movie critic for Today

Judith Crist on reviewing "Cleopatra" and not enjoying Elizabeth Taylor's performance

Judith Crist on her appearances on Today

Judith Crist on her time as a film critic on Today

Judith Crist on interviewing Federico Fellini on Today

Walter Cronkite on learning a valuable lesson- never broadcast anything you haven't fully researched

Walter Cronkite on how "intimate" television was in the early days of news broadcasting

Walter Cronkite on the subtle differences in TV journalism between editorials, commentary, and analysis

Walter Cronkite on difficulties of maintaining neutrality while covering the Vietnam War and the "conspiratorial campaign" Spiro Agnew and the Nixon administration waged on the press

Walter Cronkite on the question of whether he found it difficult to report the news when CBS itself was the news; as in the Quiz Show Scandals, and Watergate

Walter Cronkite on the expansion of the news from 15 to 30 minutes (in 1963) and how that changed the nature of the genre

Walter Cronkite on what he observes to be a deterioration of the quality of news programs and why

Walter Cronkite on the 1952 political convention where the term "Anchorman" was first coined; the resentment from radio professionals toward the new television medium

Walter Cronkite on the challenges of covering a live political event, and various technologies used in the '52 convention coverage

Ann Curry on the public's perception of broadcast news

Ann Curry on how journalists should respond to assertions of "fake news" and restore the public's trust in journalism: "get it right, and be fair and unbiased"

Ann Curry on her work at NBC News, and her time as co-host of Today

Mike Dann on his start in NBC News

James Day on a Fidel Castro documentary and other KQED programming from the '60s

James Day on KQED's Newspaper of the Air

James Day on the KQED series News Room

James Day on working with Fred Friendly on Public Broadcasting Laboratory 

James Day on becoming President of WNET and supervising production of The Great American Dream Machine 

James Day on programming An American Family  and other shows on WNET

James Day on The Great American Dream Machine  and other programs from his time at WNET

James Day on programming The 51st State

James Day on programming An American Family

James Day on producing Day at Night

Vin Di Bona on producing Entertainment Tonight

Roy Disney on Disney's True Life Adventures nature documentaries

Phil Donahue on working in radio and television news

Sam Donaldson on his first days as a Washington news correspondent at ABC in 1967

Sam Donaldson on how Leonard Goldenson's budget cuts affected ABC news coverage of the 1968 political conventions

Sam Donaldson on the competitive nature of ABC News in the 1970s as they tried to scoop CBS or NBC

Sam Donaldson gives two examples of ABC's poor handling of his news scoops early in the late 60s and early 70s

Sam Donaldson on the visual aspect of TV news coverage

Sam Donaldson on the magazine news show format (Primetime Live)

Sam Donaldson on This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts

Sam Donaldson on criticism of his aggressive journalistic style

Sam Donaldson on his initial reluctance to join ABC news in 1967

Hugh Downs on announcing for NBC's The Home Show in New York

Hugh Downs on his work on 20/20 (contd.)

Bob Doyle on directing the first episode of Meet the Press, hosted by Lawrence E. Spivak

Bob Doyle on the Camel News Caravan and The Huntley Brinkley Report

Bob Doyle on how Chet Huntley and David Brinkley were different on The Huntley-Brinkley Report, and on producer Reuven Frank

Bob Doyle on producing David Brinkley's Journal

Bob Doyle on becoming producer of the National Geographic Specials, with specials on climbing on Mt. Everest and Jane Goodall

Bob Doyle on executive producing the National Geographic Specials

Bob Doyle on celebrity journalism, and on a code of ethics for journalists

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 1)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 2)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 3)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 4)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 6)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 7)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 8)

Betty Cole Dukert on producing Meet the Press (Part 5)

Linda Ellerbee on the enduring popularity of NBC News Overnight

Linda Ellerbee on being hired by NBC News to cover congress

Linda Ellerbee on co-hosting Today for one week

Linda Ellerbee on co-hosting Weekend with Lloyd Dobyns

Linda Ellerbee on co-anchoring NBC News Overnight

Linda Ellerbee on co-anchoring Summer Sunday

Linda Ellerbee and hosting and producing Nick News

Dick Enberg on hosting the show Sports Challenge  and producing the show The Way it Was

Jeff Fager on his first job at CBS News, on the overnight news show, Nightwatch

Jeff Fager on CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Jeff Fager on how 60 Minutes and Don Hewitt were affected by CBS CEO Laurence Tisch

Jeff Fager on becoming a producer on 48 Hours at the beginning of the show

Jeff Fager on 60 Minutes

Jeff Fager on 60 Minutes (Part 2)

Jeff Fager on being executive producer of CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

Jeff Fager on 60 Minutes II

Jeff Fager on 60 Minutes (Part 3)

Jeff Fager on changes he made as Chairman of CBS News

Jeff Fager on 60 Minutes (Part 4)

Jerry Falwell on the different approaches he uses on different platforms, including his appearances on Fox News and Larry King Live

Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth's camera tube being a part of the Apollo mission to the moon in 1969

Lighting Director Imero Fiorentino on lighting the 1960 Presidential debates starting with the second one, following the first debate wherein Richard Nixon looked badly, making the best improvements he could; also the issues he had lighting JFK due to RFK's interference

Betsy Fischer on her career at Meet the Press

Ray Forrest on an early TV news simulcast with Lowell Thomas and Thomas' beard being problematic on camera; on subbing for Lowell Thomas in studio

Ray Forrest on announcing at TV's first political convention in 1940 - the Republican convention in Philadelphia

Reuven Frank on television news' early use of news reel footage

Reuven Frank on producing The Camel News Caravan on NBC

Reuven Frank on producing for NBC News, and The Huntley-Brinkley Report

Reuven Frank on NBC News President William R. McAndrew

Reuven Frank on producing The Huntley-Brinkley Report for NBC News

Reuven Frank on the rise and decline of the news documentary

Reuven Frank on how the 1952 writers strike' impacted NBC news

Reuven Frank on being a producer for NBC News

Reuven Frank on acting as a producer and executive at NBC News

Reuven Frank on the change in atmosphere of television news beginning with Watergate

Reuven Frank on producing The Huntley-Brinkley Report and acting as an executive at NBC News

Reuven Frank on Chet Huntley and David Brinkley reporting on the John F. Kennedy assassination and funeral for The Huntley-Brinkley Report

Reuven Frank on the NBC News documentary The Tunnel

Reuven Frank on acting as producer for The Huntley-Brinkley report and for NBC News at large

Reuven Frank on becoming President of NBC News in 1968, and on NBC President William R. McAndrew

Reuven Frank on his time as a producer and executive at NBC News

Reuven Frank on acting as an executive and producing for NBC News

Reuven Frank on acting as a producer and executive at NBC News

John Frankenheimer on the Hollywood Blacklist and The Senator McCarthy episode of See It Now

John Frankenheimer on working on You Are There as Sydney Lumet's associate director

Gerald Fried on working on the music for various National Geographic specials and the composing of music for documentaries in general

Chuck Fries on working with Jacques Cousteau on The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Murray Fromson on covering the 1960 presidential election for NBC News

Murray Fromson on covering Barry Goldwater's 1964 whistlestop tour, and an on-air error that occurred during Roger Mudd's reporting on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

Murray Fromson on covering the 1962 California gubernatorial race for CBS News between Richard M. Nixon and Pat Brown

Murray Fromson on covering the Vietnam War for CBS News

Murray Fromson on living in Moscow to cover the Soviet Union for CBS News

Murray Fromson on returning to Vietnam to cover the end of the war for CBS News

William Froug on doing a film with Rod Serling after JFK died introducing Lyndon Johnson to the world

Greg Garrison on producing and directing NBC: The First Fifty Years, with Orson Welles and Jerry Lewis

Whoopi Goldberg on the HBO documentary she produced about Moms Mabley, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley

Leonard H. Goldenson on putting Roone Arledge in charge of news

Leonard H. Goldenson on changes in network news due to network ownership

Leonard H. Goldenson on the network aftermath of JFK's assassination

Leonard H. Goldenson on what represents television at its best - news

Lewis Gomavitz on going to work at KNBC News in Los Angeles

Julian Gomez on editing Stunt Monster and World of Wonder

Julian Gomez on editing Intimate Portrait, and on working with a co-editor

Julian Gomez on editing the World Trade Center episode of Modern Marvels, later repurposed into The World Trade Center: Rise and Fall of an American Icon

Julian Gomez on editing A Baby Story, and on working with an assistant editor

Julian Goodman on working the 1948 political convention in Philadelphia, PA and radio's dominance over television

Julian Goodman on David Brinkley and Brinkley's early radio broadcasts

Julian Goodman on the first and second Kennedy-Nixon debates

Julian Goodman on NBC's coverage of JFK's assassination

Julian Goodman on NBC news coverage of the Vietnam War

Julian Goodman on news coverage of the 1968 Democratic Convention

Julian Goodman on NBC's coverage of Lee Harvey Oswald's death - TV's first live murder

Julian Goodman on NBC's coverage of the moon landing

Julian Goodman on Walter Cronkite dominating coverage of the 1952 Presidential Convention; on the primitive state of TV at the time; on HUAC

Julian Goodman on the expansion of television news in the mid 1950s

Julian Goodman on Edward R. Murrow's See it Now episode, "Senator McCarthy"

Julian Goodman on the first Presidential News Conference in 1955

Julian Goodman on television news documentaries

Julian Goodman on producing the second of The Great Debates

Herb Granath on the birth of The History Channel

Walon Green on going to work for Jack Haley, Jr. on the documentary series Hollywood and the Stars

Walon Green on learning to write for documentaries, including National Geographic Specials "Reptiles and Amphibians" and learning how to type

Walon Green on shooting The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Walon Green on the challenge of shooting nature footage for the National Geographic Specials

Walon Green on directing the Time-Life Specials: The March of Time episode "The Search for Vengeance" about the search for Nazi war criminals around the world

Walon Green on the impact David L. Wolper and Jack Haley, Jr. made with documentary series such as The Race for Space

Walon Green on writing the narration for the television documentary Mysteries of the Sea for William Holden

Shecky Greene on his comedic persona, and on appearing on Today with Katie Couric

Charles Grodin on expressing himself via his 60 Minutes commentaries and through other avenues

Earl Hamner on working as a writer on the early Today shows

Earl Hamner on writing for the show Wide Wide World

Marilu Henner on appearing on 60 Minutes  to discuss her memory

Doug Herzog on going to work for Entertainment Tonight as music producer, and on going to work for MTV

Don Hewitt on producing Douglas Edwards with the News, and on inventing a method for superimposing names on air

Don Hewitt on producing 60 Minutes

Don Hewitt on executive producing 60 Minutes

Martin Hoade on the Camel News Caravan

Lee Holdridge on scoring National Geographic specials

Stanley Hubbard on the early local news on his father's television station KSTP

Stanley Hubbard on KSTP News' weather radar

Stanley Hubbard on KSTP and Hubbard Broadcasting's news programming

Kim Hunter on appearing on Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow

Gwen Ifill on topics she covered on NBC News and Meet the Press

Gwen Ifill on moderating Washington Week, changes she brought to the program, and preparations for the weekly broadcast

Gwen Ifill on starting on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer aka PBS NewsHour; on finances at PBS

Gwen Ifill on moderating a Palin/Biden Vice-presidential debate

Lucy Jarvis on producing The Nation's Future

Lucy Jarvis on producing the documentary The Kremlin  for NBC News

Lucy Jarvis on producing the NBC News special documentary The Louvre: A Golden Prison

Lucy Jarvis on producing The Louvre: A Golden Prison

Lucy Jarvis on producing Who Shall Live?

Lucy Jarvis on producing Museum Without Walls

Charles Floyd Johnson on executive producing John Lewis: Get in the Way -- the first documentary on Congressman John Lewis

Don Roy King on directing Good Morning America, and on working with David Hartman and Charlie Gibson

Don Roy King on working at CBS News

Lynwood King on leaving NBC in Chicago to do The Breakfast Club with Don McNeill in New York

Lynwood King on directing Today during Dave Garroway's tenure as host

Lynwood King on directing various NBC News programming including Today, Project XX, Exploring, and their Sunday afternoon newscast

Roger King on creating and distributing Inside Edition

Jeff Kisseloff on Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly's See It Now "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy"

Ted Koppel on reporting on JFK's assassination for ABC radio

Ted Koppel on reporting on the Civil Rights Movement for ABC radio

Ted Koppel on his first television appearance in 1966 - covering the Vietnam War

Ted Koppel on reporting on Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during Watergate; on Kissinger's relationship with the press

Ted Koppel on reporting on Nixon's trip to China in 1972

Ted Koppel on Richard M. Nixon and his inability to handle small talk

Ted Koppel on becoming an anchor at ABC Evening News

Ted Koppel on becoming anchor of America Held Hostage, aka ABC News Nightline

Ted Koppel on America Held Hostag e becoming ABC News Nightline contd. - on topics, guests, technological innovations, and how the program is put together

Ted Koppel on covering the Mount St. Helen's eruption, the AIDS epidemic, the Jackie Robinson tribute, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Iraq invading Kuwait, and the O.J. Simpson trial on ABC News Nightline; on "The Fallen" episode of the program during which he read the names of 721 US Serviceman killed in Iraq  ABC News Nightline

Steve Kroft on being a correspondent for 60 Minutes

Steve Kroft on being a correspondent for 60 Minutes

Susan Lacy on the challenges of funding the American Masters documentary series and negotiating rights for such a series

Susan Lacy on the editing process on American Masters when working on a documentary

Susan Lacy on the art of documentary: you find the story in the edit room

Susan Lacy on the excitement upon discovering something new about a public figure, like Charlie Chaplin, while working on the documentary series American Masters (they found alt endings for City Lights)

Perry Lafferty on producing Person to Person

Brian Lamb on C-SPAN's first day of broadcast and early lack of programming

Brian Lamb on the inception and development of C-SPAN

On creating programming for C-SPAN; on C-SPAN's call-in show; on C-SPAN's audience and marketing

John Langley on how his concept for Cops led to the TV documentary special American Vice: The Doping of a Nation

John Langley on the documentary special Terrorism: Target USA

John Langley on Cops

Barry Levinson on his true-crime series Killing Fields and the resurgence of true-crime in popular culture

James Lipton on appearing on You Are There as several historical figures

Kurt Loder on his favorite stories and his interview techniques for MTV News

Kurt Loder on the types of stories he covered for MTV News and the network's audience

Kurt Loder on a typical production week for MTV's The Week in Rock

Stewart MacGregory on acting as unit manager of Wide Wide World

Stewart MacGregory on acting as unit manager for NBC's coverage of the 1960 Presidential Elections 

Stewart MacGregory on acting as unit manager for Wide Wide World

Stewart MacGregory on being unit manager for Today

Robert MacNeil on covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas for NBC News

Robert MacNeil on covering the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination in Dallas for NBC News

Robert MacNeil on acting as roving reporter for NBC's Huntley-Brinkley Report

Robert MacNeil on his critique of The Huntley-Brinkley Report  and of network news in general

Robert MacNeil on going to work for PBS and covering the Watergate hearings with Jim Lehrer

Robert MacNeil on starting The MacNeil Lehrer  NewsHour

Robert MacNeil on The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour   and how the show developed

Robert MacNeil on creating and anchoring The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour

Robert MacNeil on anchoring and producing The MacNeil Lehrer NewsHour

Chuck McCann on performing with puppets on Today, which led to a job on The Sandy Becker Show

Ed McMahon on Edward R. Murrow's Person to Person, and on a favorite Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson sketch of his, which spawned a running joke

Eryn Krueger Mekash on doing makeup for people on Good Morning America during the time of the O.J. Simpson trial

Lee Mendelson on producing the documentary specials The Magic of Broadcasting and The Fantastic Funnies (misidentified here by Mendelson as The Fabulous Funnies), and on creating the "entertainment documentary"

Lee Mendelson on producing the documentary special John Steinbeck's America and Americans, featuring Steinbeck and Henry Fonda

Lee Mendelson on producing Wonderful World of Pizzazz

Lee Mendelson on producing Children’s Letters to God, and The Unexplained

Al Michaels on announcing for Monday Night Football

Sig Mickelson on his stint at CBS News

Sig Mickelson on CBS News documentaries and on the birth of See It Now, hosted by Edward R. Murrow

Sig Mickelson on reporting for CBS News

Sig Mickelson on CBS News' coverage of the 1952 political conventions

Sig Mickelson on working for CBS News

Sig Mickelson on his time as President of CBS News

Sig Mickelson on his experiences as head of CBS News

Sig Mickelson on being President of CBS News

Sig Mickelson on acting as President of CBS News

Bill Monroe on working at the New Orleans local station WDSU as news director

Bill Monroe on his time a bureau chief for NBC News in Washington, D.C.

Bill Monroe on working in New Orleans local news at WDSU in New Orleans

Bill Monroe on his time at NBC News as the bureau chief in Washington, D.C.

Bill Monroe on moderating Meet the Press

Bill Monroe on moderating Meet the Press

Bill Monroe on moderating Meet the Press

Bill Monroe on his letters segment on Today

Leslie Moonves on CBS News during his tenure

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson and television 

Bill Moyers on Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Movement

Bill Moyers on getting approached by National Educational Television in NY (WNET) to host a show - what would become Bill Moyers' Journal; on the show's format

Roger Mudd on Walter Cronkite getting hired at CBS and his competition at NBC; on trying to get pieces onto Cronkite's show

Roger Mudd on reporting on the passage of the Civil Rights Bill

Roger Mudd on covering JFK's assassination for CBS News

Roger Mudd on CBS coverage of Watergate

Roger Mudd on "The Selling of the Pentagon" documentary for CBS Reports

Roger Mudd on covering Bobby Kennedy's Presidential bid and assassination

Roger Mudd on filling in for Walter Cronkite as anchor of CBS Evening News

Roger Mudd on moderating NBC's Meet the Press

Roger Mudd on working on the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour

Jonathan Murray on the documentary Autism: The Musical

Alan Neuman on directing Meet the Press, and on dealing with ad agencies in the early days of television

Alan Neuman on the guests during his time directing Meet the Press

Alan Neuman on directing Wide Wide World

Alan Neuman on working with President Herbert Hoover on several shows including Meet the Press and Person to Person

Alan Neuman on directing Person to Person with Edward R. Murrow

Alan Neuman on directing Adlai Stevenson Reports

Alan Neuman on John F. Kennedy appearing on Person to Person

Sheila Nevins on getting fired from 20/20

Sheila Nevins on producing Eros America for HBO (later Real Sex)

Sheila Nevins on the documentary series America Undercover

Sheila Nevins on the process of making a documentary for HBO

Sheila Nevins on Cinemax Reel Time

Sheila Nevins on what makes a perfect documentary

Sheila Nevins on the documentary Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks

Sheila Nevins on the documentary The Broadcast Tapes of Dr. Peter

Sheila Nevins on the HBO series Taxicab Confessions

Sheila Nevins on the HBO documentary In Memoriam 9/11

Sheila Nevins on the documentary Elaine Stritch: At Liberty

Horace Newcomb on An American Family, and on the serialization of television which led to shows like Roots and Dallas

Horace Newcomb on being interviewed for 60 Minutes by Morley Safer, who asked him, "Television. Why bother?"

Nicolas Noxon on working on the syndicated show Biography for producers David Wolper and Jack Haley, Jr.

Nicolas Noxon on doing research and cutting footage for the syndicated show Biography

Nicolas Noxon on working on the syndicated show Biography for producers David Wolper and Jack Haley, Jr. (part 2)

Nicolas Noxon on the NBC documentary show Hollywood and the Stars

Nicolas Noxon on the documentary series Men in Crisis

Nicolas Noxon on National Geographic Specials

Nicolas Noxon on National Geographic's  "Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man"

Nicolas Noxon on National Geographic Specials  (part 2)

Nicolas Noxon on NBC's GE Monogram Series, which was produced by MGM

Nicolas Noxon on the MGM documentary Childhood: The Enchanted Years and its narrator, Alexander Scourby

Nicolas Noxon on National Geographic Specials (part 3)

Nicolas Noxon on the syndicated series, Sports Illustrated

Nicolas Noxon on Ripley's Believe It or Not

Nicolas Noxon on Secrets of the Titanic

Nicolas Noxon on National Geographic documentaries

Soledad O'Brien on why she was drawn to working in news

Soledad O'Brien on understanding that being on camera in the news world gives you a certain amount of power

Soledad O'Brien on working at KRON-TV in San Francisco -- her first time as an on-camera reporter

Soledad O'Brien on the state of journalism in the early 1990s and whether or not she faced bias and discrimination at that time

Soledad O'Brien on joining MSNBC as the anchor of The Site and developing her voice as an anchor; on working on MSNBC Morning Blend, NBC News, and the weekend version of Today; on the role of an anchor and the role of a reporter; on covering breaking news

Soledad O'Brien on leaving NBC for CNN in 2003, network notes she received while at NBC and CNN, and some of the major stories she's covered throughout her career: the 2004 tsunami in Thailand and Hurricane Katrina (2005)

Soledad O'Brien on moving to the documentary division at CNN and launching the Black in America documentary series

Soledad O'Brien on the Latino in America documentaries for CNN

Soledad O'Brien on anchoring Starting Point on CNN

Soledad O'Brien on the AC360 special "Kids on Race: The Hidden Picture"

Soledad O'Brien on the format of Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

Soledad O'Brien on working on Black and Missing in 2020

Soledad O'Brien on tracking the demographics of who she hires and who she puts on the air on Matter of Fact with Soledad O'Brien

Soledad O'Brien on Disrupt & Dismantle

Soledad O'Brien on what she hopes audiences take away from Black and Missing

Soledad O'Brien on where she was at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and on shooting the documentary Outbreak: The First Response

Estelle Parsons on being a producer and commentator on Today

Estelle Parsons on being a "Today Girl" on Today

Jane Pauley on co-hosting Today

Jane Pauley on Dateline NBC

Jane Pauley on co-anchoring Today

Frederick S. Pierce on ABC News

Abraham Polonsky on writing for You Are There

Abraham Polonsky on writing for You Are There

Maury Povich on meeting Rupert Murdoch and the plan for A Current Affair

Maury Povich on his initial thoughts on A Current Affair

Ward Quaal on WGN's news programming, and on the station being part of Tribune

Sterling "Red" Quinlan on the local news at WBKB in Chicago

Sterling "Red" Quinlan on the then-current state of television news

Jorge Ramos on making the transition into television in Mexico on Sesenta Minutos

Jorge Ramos on reporting and anchoring for various news outlets

Jorge Ramos on reporting and anchoring for various news outlets

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on co-anchoring Noticiero Univision

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on what they've learned about television journalism

Dan Rather on building the first CBS affiliate news station in Houston: on "breaking news"

Dan Rather how Charles Collingwood helped him greatly in learning how to cover news in Vietnam and Laos

Dan Rather on how news material was gathered and fed out during the Civil Rights Movement

Dan Rather on the type of reporting done on 60 Minutes

Alan and Susan Raymond (producer of An American Family) on their purpose with documentary filmmaking; their view of public reaction to their films

Ed Resnick on KTLA covering the factory explosion in 1947 and the Kathy Fiscus story in 1949

Ed Resnick on the conclusion of the Kathy Fiscus story, the effect it had on television, and Klaus Landsberg's direction of the broadcast

Ed Resnick on shooting the atomic bomb tests in Las Vegas for KTLA

Ed Resnick on shooting stories for KTLA's news broadcasts

Ed Resnick on news events he shot for KTLA news in the '60s

Geraldo Rivera on WABC Eyewitness News

Geraldo Rivera on how 20/20 was initially received and his decision to leave the program

Geraldo Rivera on interviewing Michael Jackson on Geraldo At Large

Cokie Roberts on appearing on the PBS series The Lawmakers and being a contributor to The MacNeil/Lehrer Report

Cokie Roberts on what she learned from David Brinkley during her time on This Week with David Brinkley, and on the challenges of becoming anchor of This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts

Al Roker on moving to Washington, D.C. to work for the 10pm news at WTTG; on meeting and working with Willard Scott

Al Roker on covering weather on location for Today

Andy Rooney on his start in documentary writing on The Twentieth Century and The Seven Lively Arts

Andy Rooney on writing for The Morning Show with Will Rogers, Jr.

Andy Rooney on some of the mishaps he witnessed on live television, particularly on Calendar

Andy Rooney on working on Calendar with Harry Reasoner

Andy Rooney on working on Bird's Eye View of America, The Strange Case of the English Language , a CBS News documentary about Frank Sinatra, and CBS News documentaries about the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s

Andy Rooney on writing the documentary Harry and Lena featuring Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne

Andy Rooney on writing the documentaries Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed and An Essay on War

Andy Rooney on writing for and appearing on The Great American Dream Machine

Andy Rooney on his documentary Mr. Rooney Goes to Washington and other documentaries

Andy Rooney on working on 60 Minutes

Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes

Tim Russert on the limitations of television news and avoiding gimmickry

Morley Safer on his first on-camera reporting in 1956 - covering the Hundred Hours War in Tel Aviv

Morley Safer on his early writing for news anchors

Morley Safer on his first trip to Vietnam

Morley Safer on the Cam Ne story, during which he reported on American soldiers burning a Vietnamese village 

Morley Safer on the public reaction to his reporting of Cam Ne

Morley Safer on the premise of 60 Minutes and Don Hewitt's role in conceiving the idea for the program; on Mike Wallace and other correspondents; on significant stories he covered

Morley Safer on being a broadcast journalist in Vietnam during the war

Morley Safer on joining 60 Minutes; on the success of 60 Minutes

Morley Safer on significant stories on 60 Minutes

Maria Elena Salinas on reporting for the Spanish International Network

Maria Elena Salinas on her career as a reporter and anchorwoman 

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on co-anchoring Noticiero Univision

Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas on what they've learned about television journalism

Maria Elena Salinas on her career as a reporter and anchor

Marlene Sanders on her duties at news shows at WABD-TV

Marlene Sanders on working on Night Beat

Marlene Sanders on becoming a female correspondent at ABC News; on the state of ABC News; on her news style and on-camera appearance when anchoring daytime news

Marlene Sanders on guests she booked on Night Beat - Jack Kerouac, W.E.B. Du Bois and others; on the fate of WABD-TV; on her work on documentaries and public affairs programs; on becoming a working mom

Marlene Sanders on working for ABC News

Marlene Sanders on her work at ABC News (contd.)

Marlene Sanders on her work at CBS News

Marlene Sanders on working for ABC News, Channel 13, narrating documentaries, and publishing the book "Waiting for Primetime"

Marlene Sanders on advice for women in broadcast journalism

Ted Sarandos on how What Happened, Miss Simone? came to be produced by Netflix

Bob Schieffer on being a reporter for CBS News

Bob Schieffer on his time as CBS News chief Washington correspondent

Bob Schieffer on hosting Face the Nation

Bob Schieffer being the interim CBS Evening News anchro between Dan Rather and Katie Couric

Lalo Schifrin on composing music for David Wolper's three-part documentary The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich; on developing a cantata from his score

Lalo Schifrin on composing for The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Max Schindler on directing the coverage of the Kennedy assassination for NBC News

Max Schindler on directing Meet the Press

Max Schindler on directing Meet the Press

Max Schindler on directing Today from Washington, DC

Herbert S. Schlosser on the news division at NBC

Alfred Schneider on an episode of Howard K. Smith: News and Comment ("The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon"), and how it led to the formulation of a policy to protect news departments from the interference of sponsors

Arthur Schneider on editing for The Huntley-Brinkley Report

Reese Schonfeld on the creation of Crossfire on CNN

Reese Schonfeld on creating Crossfire, and on the role the show played in his exit from CNN

Daniel Schorr on interviewing Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow on Face the Nation

Daniel Schorr on covering Nikita Khrushchev's trip to the United States in 1959 for Eyewitness to History

Daniel Schorr on how CBS News portrayed Nikita Khrushchev, and on negotiating his Face the Nation interview

Daniel Schorr on doing a CBS documentary on East Germany, and on clashing with William S. Paley

Daniel Schorr on covering various stories for CBS News

Daniel Schorr on covering Watergate and other stories for various CBS News programs

Judith Sheindlin on her appearance on 60 Minutes and why she agreed to do the piece

John Silva on early KTLA news broadcasts, including the Kathy Fiscus story

John Silva on deciding to use remote units on news stories and his inventions for mobile units

John Silva on KTLA covering the atomic bomb test in Nevada in 1952

John Silva on news stories covered with the Telecopter in its early years

John Silva on the impact of Telecopters on television news

John Silva on photos of the first Telecopter

Bob Simon on how CBS news portrayed the Vietnam War on television

Bob Simon on asking to be assigned to the CBS Tel Aviv Bureau

Bob Simon on the changing nature of news

Garry Simpson on directing Wide Wide World

Howard K. Smith on doing Edward R. Murrow's year-end television shows 

News Correspondent Howard K. Smith on moderating the first of the Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debates

Howard K. Smith on moderating presidential debates

Howard K. Smith on his friendship with and the legacy of Edward R. Murrow

Howard K. Smith on "Murrow's Boys"

Sid Smith on the format, host, and locations of Wide Wide World

Sanford Socolow on his role as producer of and stories covered on CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

Sanford Socolow on his time at the CBS Washington News Bureau

Sanford Socolow on CBS News coverage of memorable events of the 1960s and 1970s

Sanford Socolow on changes in network news over the years

Sanford Socolow on the state of CBS News in the 1950s

Sanford Socolow on working for DuMont and CBS News 

John Soh on editing Story Of... for David Wolper

John Soh on editing The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

John Soh on editing The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

Lesley Stahl on the process of doing a story for 60 Minutes

Frank Stanton on the founding and history of CBS News

Frank Stanton on the controversial CBS Reports: The Selling of the Pentagon in which he personally faced contempt charges

Frank Stanton on the creation of CBS News

Herbert Stempel on appearing on the PBS American Experience  episode "The Quiz Show Scandal"

Robert Trout on CBS Reports

Ted Turner on the birth of CNN

Ted Turner on the premiere and early budget for CNN

Ted Turner on the challenges of starting CNN

Ted Turner on creating CNN II (Headline News)

Ted Turner on the responsibility and power of the news media

Bill Tush on anchoring and reporting for CNN's Showbiz Today; on stories he covered for CNN's Showbiz Today; on interviewing celebrities for CNN's Showbiz Today

Bill Tush on the ground rules for interviewing celebrities for CNN's Showbiz Today; on the culture of celebrity; on his favorite celebrity interviews

Jac Venza on producing Adventure

Jac Venza on re-designing the news set for CBS news

Jac Venza on the creation of American Masters

Jac Venza on executive producing City Arts

Jac Venza on executive producing Broadway: The American Musical, his final project

James Wall on stage-managing CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

James Wall on working on both CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

James Wall on stage-managing some 60 Minutes telecasts

Mike Wallace on The Mike Wallace Interview

Mike Wallace on hosting The Race for Space for producer David Wolper

Mike Wallace on working on 60 Minutes

Barbara Walters on the criticism she took for her record-breaking salary

Barbara Walters on her approach to interviewing

Joseph Wershba on writing for See It Now

Joseph Wershba on working on the See It Now story about reserve Air Force lieutenant Milo Radulovich

Joseph Wershba on Edward R. Murrow's "A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" on See It Now

Jospeh Wershba on writing for 60 Minutes

Joseph Wershba on producing stories for 60 Minutes

Av Westin on creating the CBS Morning News

Av Westin on Executive Producing ABC News aka World News Tonight

Av Westin on Executive Producing ABC's 20/20

Av Westin on the impact of the internet on television news

Av Westin on Executive Producing Inside Edition and working with Bill O'Reilly

Betty White on turning down a chance to work on the Today show

Brian Williams on anchoring NBC Nightly News

Brian Williams on being a correspondent on NBC Nightly News and an anchor on MSNBC

Perry Wolff on producing CBS Reports including "The Selling of the Pentagon" segment

Perry Wolff on producing The Vanishing Family  for PBS

Perry Wolff on writing and producing The Moon Above, the Earth Below

Perry Wolff on his role as producer of the CBS documentary series Adventure 

Perry Wolff on producing A Tour of the White House  for CBS News featuring Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady to President John F. Kennedy

Perry Wolff on producing Air Power  for CBS

David L. Wolper on the genesis and production of The Race for Space

David L. Wolper on producing The Race for Space

David L. Wolper on The Making of the President: 1964

David L. Wolper on producing The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

David L. Wolper on the declining popularity of the documentary in the early '70s

David L. Wolper on producing Let My People Go

David L. Wolper on producing The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and on the importance of the narrator in documentaries

David L. Wolper on producing a series of specials titled Appointment with Destiny and on the controversial practice of docudramas using newly shot "recreations"

David L. Wolper on how cable television impacted television documentaries and miniseries

Jeff Zucker on his early fascination with local news

Jeff Zucker on Jane Pauley offering him a job on Today

Jeff Zucker on his first job at Today and the tumultuous atmosphere of the show at that time

Jeff Zucker on his rise to Executive Producer of Today  and the hiring of Katie Couric

Jeff Zucker on his vision and innovations as Executive Producer of Today

Jeff Zucker on how he negotiated with the network to take chances and skip commercials while Executive Producer at Today

Jeff Zucker on why Today was such a good fit for him as a Producer

Jeff Zucker on a typical day of production for Today

Jeff Zucker on his management style as Executive Producer at Today

Jeff Zucker on Matt Lauer replacing Bryant Gumbel as co-host of Today

Jeff Zucker on his pride in Today and its success during his tenure as Executive Producer

Jeff Zucker on Brian Williams replacing Tom Brokaw as anchor of NBC Nightly News

Jeff Zucker on Katie Couric leaving Today and being replaced by Meredith Viera