Murrow's Boys - The Second Generation "Boys"

The Second Generation "Boys"

After World War II, Murrow returned to New York and briefly served as CBS’s vice president for public affairs – similar to the current role of CBS News president. Murrow recruited several promising journalists in the mold of the original Boys, some of whom became close enough to Murrow that they’re seen as a second generation.

They include:

• Walter Cronkite, who covered North Africa and Europe for United Press during the war, was the anchor for the CBS Evening News from 1962-1981
• David Schoenbrun, who covered France
• Daniel Schorr, who covered the Soviet Union and Germany
• Alexander Kendrick, who covered Vienna, Great Britain and later Vietnam and became Murrow's first biographer
• Robert Pierpoint, who covered the Korean War before becoming a CBS News White House correspondent
• George Polk, who covered the Middle East and Turkey and was killed while covering Greece in 1948
• Marvin Kalb, who covered Moscow and Washington for CBS

Murrow tried to recruit Cronkite away from UP for CBS during the war and did after the war was over.

Dan Schorr stayed with CBS News until 1976. He later joined the Cable News Network, and was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, often delivering commentaries in the Murrow mold, until his death on July 23, 2010.

Kalb, the last journalist recruited by Murrow to CBS, was joined by his brother Bernard at the network in the 1960s and 70s. The Kalbs later moved on to NBC. Marvin Kalb is now a Fox News contributor and is now a Washington-based senior fellow for Harvard University.

Many journalists, including some at CBS, include these "post-war" associates in the group of Boys, though authors Cloud and Olson limited their own list to the World War II crew.