Bliss At CBS
Ed Bliss was hired by CBS in 1943. He got his start by chance. A friend Bliss was visiting in New York mentioned that Dallas Townsend --a writer who later became a CBS broadcaster—had enlisted in the Army, leaving a job opening at CBS. He applied and was handed thousands of words of copy from United Press, Hearst International News Service and Associated Press and told to write a five-minute newscast. It was a sort of test. He did it and he passed. CBS News chief Paul White gave him a midnight to 9 a.m. job writing news copy at CBS.
He was part of a second generation of Murrow's Boys which included Alexander Kendrick, George Polk, David Schoenbrun and others. Bliss produced and wrote for Murrow. He was also the first news editor for the CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite.
He left CBS in 1968 to found the broadcast journalism program at American University in Washington D.C.
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