Martin Agronsky
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Martin Agronsky was an American journalist
and host of the television program Agronsky & Company.
, Pennsylvania
, on January 12, 1915. He moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey
as a young child and graduated from Atlantic City High School
in 1932 and from Rutgers University
in New Brunswick, New Jersey
, in 1936.
. In 1937 he left the newspaper to become a freelance journalist. During this period he covered the Last day's of " The illfated " League of Nations " , the Spanish Civil War
of 1936-1939. During his time in Europe he freelanced for various American , British and other newspapers and various wire sevices around the world including a freelance piece he did for " Foreign Affairs " magazine on The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Mussilini's Italy. In 1940 Max Jordan the NBC Bureau Chief for all of Europe was Scrambling to put together an NBC presence Throughout Europe to cover Hitler's War in the Balkan's with Britain . Max Jordan Tapped Agronsky to be the NBC Bureau chief in the Balkins. At First agronsky covered the war from all over the Balkins and much of Eastern Europe . Eventually , Agronsky Opened a Permanent NBC Bureau in Ankara the Capital of A Neutral Turkey . Although based in Ankara , Agronsky Spent most of his time in Istanbul
A city over flowing with intrigue . In Europe and North Africa Agronsky became a foreign correspondent for NBC
, providing coverage of World War II
from the Balkans and Eastern Europe . Eventually Agronsky was transferred to Cairo , Egypt and accredited to cover the British 8TH Army Group in North Africa. When Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941 Agronsky was sent to Australia . His journey to Australia to cover General Douglas Macarthur's arrival in Melbourne from Corrigador took several months and took him Country hopping . Agronsky arrived in Singapore as the city was being bombed into submission by the Japanese air force while the Japanese Army began Circling the city with Ground troops . After a week in Singapore , Agronsky was lucky to literally catch one of the last plane's out of Singapore , a Dutch Air Mail Plane . In 1943 NBC consisted of The Blue and the Red Networks . NBC was forced to spin of one of the Networks which became ABC and Agronsky went with the new network becamming a Washington, D.C.
-based correspondent for ABC
Doing " The Daily War Journal " until the end of WW11 . In 1948 he helped to pioneer television coverage of American political convention
s in 1948. He also covered the hearings on purported communist infiltration of the United States
chaired by Senator
Joseph McCarthy. Agronsky also did a one on one interview show on television at ABC entitled " At Issue " In 1957, he returned to NBC
, again as a correspondent and from 1957 through 1964 starting with the " Dave Garroway hosted " Today Show " he did all the interviews out of Washington during that time for the " Today Show " . In addition , he did another One on one interview show entitled " Look Here " Where He interviewed amongst others the Sen. John Kennedy and a young up and comming Martin Luther King Jr. interviewed Martin Luther King, Jr that year. He covered the trial for eight months from start to finish of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
in Israel
in 1961. An interview with Texas Governor
John Connally
Agronsky conducted on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
in the car Connally had been riding in, was widely considered a great success by his fellow journalists.
After several months at the CBS Washington Bureau Agronsky was named " The CBS Bureau Chief " in Paris . After six months As CBS beaureau chief in Paris CBS recalled Agronsky from Paris and made him the new Moderator of " Face The Nation " in Washington . He was the " CBS Bureau Chief " in Paris From March to September 1965 ! Agronsky was recalled from Paris to become the Moderator of " Face The Nation " from September 1965 Through December 1968 Doing the show from both Washington and Around the World .
Agronsky & Company
Agronsky became a news anchor for WTOP-TV
in Washington, D.C., in 1969, but in the same year became host of the political discussion television program Agronsky & Company, produced by the Washington, D.C local CBS affiliate WTOP where agronsky anchored the one hour " Big News " Agronsky introduced a short segment on the news with Political Reporters . Shortly afterwards , Agronsky left the evening local news and , " Agronsky & Company " became a stand alone weekly show of its own produced and syndicated by " Post Newsweek Stations ( owner of WTOP ) The show was syndicated nationally by Post Newsweek to local and National Stations including those of the PBS
station's Nationally including WETA in Washington. He hosted the show until he retired in January 1988, and it proved to be one of the biggest successes of his career.
The show generally is credited as having invented the now-common roundtable discussion format for public affairs and political television shows which feature prominent journalists discussing current events and offering their opinions about them, although Agronsky & Company always maintained a low key and never involved the loud arguments and shouting that came to characterize many of its imitators that came along later. Its regular panelists included Hugh Sidey
of Time
magazine, Peter Lisagor
of the Chicago Daily News
, and columnists Carl Rowan
, James J. Kilpatrick
, Elizabeth Drew
, and George Will
, and although some of the liberal-vs.-conservative argumentation now common on American public affairs shows began with pointed arguments between Agronsky & Company panelists, Agronsky always exerted a calming influence. The show was held in generally high regard; Senator
Edward Kennedy
once said, "Everybody who is in public life watches Agronsky.". In a celebrated essay for The New Republic in 1981, liberal pundit Michael Kinsley lampooned the program as "Jerkofsky and Company." After Agronsky's retirement, journalist Gordon Peterson
took over the show and, renamed Inside Washington
, it continues to air today with the same low-key format.
In addition to doing " Agronsky & Company " once a week , Agronsky started doing on PBS, Martin Agronsky's : Evening Edition , a five night a week interview show that ran Monday through Friday at 7:30 P.M. which had the good luck of coinciding with the 1972 Presidential Campaign that saw the re-election of Richard Nixon as President ,the Watergate break in , the subsequent Senate Watergate hearings and the ultimate Resignation of Richard Nixon from his Presidency . After " Evening Edition " ended toward the end of 1975 , Agronsky at Large" , a once a week hour long one on one interview show Ran on PBS throughout 1976 .
for his reporting on the trial of Adolph Eichmann, also while at NBC. He received the Emmy Award
while at CBS in 1968 for his one hour interview , the first TV interview granted by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black . He also won the " Venice Film Festival Award for his one hour documentory
" , The first such award Granted to a news documentory entitled , " Polaris , Journal of an Under Sea Voyage " about a three week undersea
voyage aboard the " SS Geaorge Washington " one of the first U.S. nuclear submarine's based out of Holylocke , Scotland . Agronsky was also the recipient of many other
Journalism Awards throughout his over fifty year journalism career
nurse whom he met while covering General Douglas Macarthur in Melbourne, Australia in 1942. Agronsky returned to the U.S. in March of 1943 whereupon he expedited Lt. Smathers' return to the States where they were married in Baltimore, Maryland at City Hall, grabbing a stranger off the street to be their best man. They went on to have four children, Marcia, Jonathan, David and Julie, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The marriage ended with her death in 1969. Agronsky then married Sharon Hines in 1971; the marriage produced one child, Rachel.
Journalist
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and host of the television program Agronsky & Company.
Early years
Agronsky was born in PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, on January 12, 1915. He moved to Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, and a nationally renowned resort city for gambling, shopping and fine dining. The city also served as the inspiration for the American version of the board game Monopoly. Atlantic City is located on Absecon Island on the coast...
as a young child and graduated from Atlantic City High School
Atlantic City High School
Atlantic City High School is a four-year public high school located in Atlantic City, in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Atlantic City School District. The current school building opened in 1994 and holds approximately 2,500 students...
in 1932 and from Rutgers University
Rutgers University
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...
in New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick, New Jersey
New Brunswick is a city in Middlesex County, New Jersey, USA. It is the county seat and the home of Rutgers University. The city is located on the Northeast Corridor rail line, southwest of Manhattan, on the southern bank of the Raritan River. At the 2010 United States Census, the population of...
, in 1936.
Years as a correspondent
In 1936, Agronsky became a reporter for the Palestine Post, precursor to today's Jerusalem Post, which had been founded by his uncle, Gershon AgronGershon Agron
Gershon Agron was an Israeli newspaper editor and mayor of Jerusalem in 1955-1959.-Biography:Gershon Agron was born in the Ukraine and emigrated with his family to the United States at the age of five. He grew up in Philadelphia. During World War I, he fought with the Jewish Legion in Palestine...
. In 1937 he left the newspaper to become a freelance journalist. During this period he covered the Last day's of " The illfated " League of Nations " , the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...
of 1936-1939. During his time in Europe he freelanced for various American , British and other newspapers and various wire sevices around the world including a freelance piece he did for " Foreign Affairs " magazine on The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Mussilini's Italy. In 1940 Max Jordan the NBC Bureau Chief for all of Europe was Scrambling to put together an NBC presence Throughout Europe to cover Hitler's War in the Balkan's with Britain . Max Jordan Tapped Agronsky to be the NBC Bureau chief in the Balkins. At First agronsky covered the war from all over the Balkins and much of Eastern Europe . Eventually , Agronsky Opened a Permanent NBC Bureau in Ankara the Capital of A Neutral Turkey . Although based in Ankara , Agronsky Spent most of his time in Istanbul
A city over flowing with intrigue . In Europe and North Africa Agronsky became a foreign correspondent for NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, providing coverage of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
from the Balkans and Eastern Europe . Eventually Agronsky was transferred to Cairo , Egypt and accredited to cover the British 8TH Army Group in North Africa. When Pearl Harbor was bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941 Agronsky was sent to Australia . His journey to Australia to cover General Douglas Macarthur's arrival in Melbourne from Corrigador took several months and took him Country hopping . Agronsky arrived in Singapore as the city was being bombed into submission by the Japanese air force while the Japanese Army began Circling the city with Ground troops . After a week in Singapore , Agronsky was lucky to literally catch one of the last plane's out of Singapore , a Dutch Air Mail Plane . In 1943 NBC consisted of The Blue and the Red Networks . NBC was forced to spin of one of the Networks which became ABC and Agronsky went with the new network becamming a Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
-based correspondent for ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
Doing " The Daily War Journal " until the end of WW11 . In 1948 he helped to pioneer television coverage of American political convention
Political convention
In politics, a political convention is a meeting of a political party, typically to select party candidates.In the United States, a political convention usually refers to a presidential nominating convention, but it can also refer to state, county, or congressional district nominating conventions...
s in 1948. He also covered the hearings on purported communist infiltration of the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
chaired by Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
Joseph McCarthy. Agronsky also did a one on one interview show on television at ABC entitled " At Issue " In 1957, he returned to NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
, again as a correspondent and from 1957 through 1964 starting with the " Dave Garroway hosted " Today Show " he did all the interviews out of Washington during that time for the " Today Show " . In addition , he did another One on one interview show entitled " Look Here " Where He interviewed amongst others the Sen. John Kennedy and a young up and comming Martin Luther King Jr. interviewed Martin Luther King, Jr that year. He covered the trial for eight months from start to finish of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...
in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
in 1961. An interview with Texas Governor
Governor of Texas
The governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Texas Legislature, and to convene the legislature...
John Connally
John Connally
John Bowden Connally, Jr. , was an influential American politician, serving as the 39th governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy under President John F. Kennedy, and as Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard M. Nixon. While he was Governor in 1963, Connally was a passenger in the car in...
Agronsky conducted on November 27, 1963, five days after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy assassination
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas...
in the car Connally had been riding in, was widely considered a great success by his fellow journalists.
CBS Paris Bureau Chief From March 1965 to September 1965
Face the Nation Moderator September 1965- December 1968After several months at the CBS Washington Bureau Agronsky was named " The CBS Bureau Chief " in Paris . After six months As CBS beaureau chief in Paris CBS recalled Agronsky from Paris and made him the new Moderator of " Face The Nation " in Washington . He was the " CBS Bureau Chief " in Paris From March to September 1965 ! Agronsky was recalled from Paris to become the Moderator of " Face The Nation " from September 1965 Through December 1968 Doing the show from both Washington and Around the World .
Agronsky & Company
" Matin Agronsky's : Evening Edition "
" Agronsky At Large "Agronsky became a news anchor for WTOP-TV
WUSA (TV)
WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network...
in Washington, D.C., in 1969, but in the same year became host of the political discussion television program Agronsky & Company, produced by the Washington, D.C local CBS affiliate WTOP where agronsky anchored the one hour " Big News " Agronsky introduced a short segment on the news with Political Reporters . Shortly afterwards , Agronsky left the evening local news and , " Agronsky & Company " became a stand alone weekly show of its own produced and syndicated by " Post Newsweek Stations ( owner of WTOP ) The show was syndicated nationally by Post Newsweek to local and National Stations including those of the PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
station's Nationally including WETA in Washington. He hosted the show until he retired in January 1988, and it proved to be one of the biggest successes of his career.
The show generally is credited as having invented the now-common roundtable discussion format for public affairs and political television shows which feature prominent journalists discussing current events and offering their opinions about them, although Agronsky & Company always maintained a low key and never involved the loud arguments and shouting that came to characterize many of its imitators that came along later. Its regular panelists included Hugh Sidey
Hugh Sidey
Hugh Sidey was an American journalist and worked for Life magazine starting in 1955, then moved on to Time magazine in 1957.-Biography:...
of Time
Time (magazine)
Time is an American news magazine. A European edition is published from London. Time Europe covers the Middle East, Africa and, since 2003, Latin America. An Asian edition is based in Hong Kong...
magazine, Peter Lisagor
Peter Lisagor
Peter Lisagor was Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News from 1959 to 1976 and was one of the most respected and best-known journalists in the United States...
of the Chicago Daily News
Chicago Daily News
The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...
, and columnists Carl Rowan
Carl Rowan
Carl Thomas Rowan , was an American government official, journalist and author. Rowan was a nationally-syndicated op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and the Chicago Sun-Times. He was one of the most prominent black journalists of the 20th century.-Background:Carl Rowan was born in...
, James J. Kilpatrick
James J. Kilpatrick
James Jackson Kilpatrick was an American editorial columnist and grammarian. He was a legal abstractionist, a social conservative, and an economic libertarian according to Harvard ....
, Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew
Elizabeth Drew is an American political journalist and author.- Biography :A graduate of Wellesley College, she was Washington correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker...
, and George Will
George Will
George Frederick Will is an American newspaper columnist, journalist, and author. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winner best known for his conservative commentary on politics...
, and although some of the liberal-vs.-conservative argumentation now common on American public affairs shows began with pointed arguments between Agronsky & Company panelists, Agronsky always exerted a calming influence. The show was held in generally high regard; Senator
United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...
Edward Kennedy
Ted Kennedy
Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy was a United States Senator from Massachusetts and a member of the Democratic Party. Serving almost 47 years, he was the second most senior member of the Senate when he died and is the fourth-longest-serving senator in United States history...
once said, "Everybody who is in public life watches Agronsky.". In a celebrated essay for The New Republic in 1981, liberal pundit Michael Kinsley lampooned the program as "Jerkofsky and Company." After Agronsky's retirement, journalist Gordon Peterson
Gordon Peterson
Gordon Peterson is an American broadcast journalist and Washington, D.C.-based television news anchor. He is the 6 p.m. co-anchor for ABC affiliate WJLA-TV and is also moderator and producer of Inside Washington, a political roundtable discussion about current political events going on in Washington...
took over the show and, renamed Inside Washington
Inside Washington
Inside Washington is a political roundtable show hosted by WJLA news anchor and chief political reporter Gordon Peterson. It is produced by Allbritton, owner of WJLA, and distributed to PBS stations nationwide by American Public Television...
, it continues to air today with the same low-key format.
In addition to doing " Agronsky & Company " once a week , Agronsky started doing on PBS, Martin Agronsky's : Evening Edition , a five night a week interview show that ran Monday through Friday at 7:30 P.M. which had the good luck of coinciding with the 1972 Presidential Campaign that saw the re-election of Richard Nixon as President ,the Watergate break in , the subsequent Senate Watergate hearings and the ultimate Resignation of Richard Nixon from his Presidency . After " Evening Edition " ended toward the end of 1975 , Agronsky at Large" , a once a week hour long one on one interview show Ran on PBS throughout 1976 .
Awards
Agronsky received the George Foster Peabody Award in 1952 for his coverage of the McCarthy hearings for ABC. In 1961 he received the Alfred I. DuPont AwardDuPont-Columbia Award
The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast journalism. The awards, administered since 1968 by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, are considered a broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, another...
for his reporting on the trial of Adolph Eichmann, also while at NBC. He received the Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
while at CBS in 1968 for his one hour interview , the first TV interview granted by Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black . He also won the " Venice Film Festival Award for his one hour documentory
" , The first such award Granted to a news documentory entitled , " Polaris , Journal of an Under Sea Voyage " about a three week undersea
voyage aboard the " SS Geaorge Washington " one of the first U.S. nuclear submarine's based out of Holylocke , Scotland . Agronsky was also the recipient of many other
Journalism Awards throughout his over fifty year journalism career
Personal life
Agronsky married Helen Smathers, a United States ArmyUnited States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
nurse whom he met while covering General Douglas Macarthur in Melbourne, Australia in 1942. Agronsky returned to the U.S. in March of 1943 whereupon he expedited Lt. Smathers' return to the States where they were married in Baltimore, Maryland at City Hall, grabbing a stranger off the street to be their best man. They went on to have four children, Marcia, Jonathan, David and Julie, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. The marriage ended with her death in 1969. Agronsky then married Sharon Hines in 1971; the marriage produced one child, Rachel.
Death
Martin Agronsky died at his Rock Creek Park home in Washington , D.C. on July 25, 1999 of congestive heart failure at age 84. During his 52 year Journalism career , Print from 1936 to 1940 and Radio and Television from 1940 to 1988 , Agronsky is believed to be the only Broadcast Journalist / commentator To have worked For all three American Commercial Networks , NBC Twice ,as a War Correspondant for NBC Radio from ,1940-1943 and For NBC Radio and Television from 1957 through 1964 . ABC Radio and Television Correspondant both in the U.S and Overseas from 1943-1957 . CBS Radio and Television from Early 1964-1968 both in the U.S. and Overseas . Syndication by Post Newsweek stations of " Agronsky & Company " from 1969 to 1988 and PBS from 1971-1976 both here and overseas .Biographical chronology
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1915, Jan. 12 | Born, Philadelphia, Pa. |
| 1936 | B.A., Rutgers University Rutgers University Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American... , New Brunswick, N.J. |
| 1936-1937 | Reporter, Palestine Post The Jerusalem Post The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli daily English-language broadsheet newspaper, founded on December 1, 1932 by Gershon Agron as The Palestine Post. The daily readership numbers do not approach those of the major Hebrew newspapers.... |
| 1937-1940 | Freelance newspaper reporter |
| 1940-1943 | Foreign correspondent, National Broadcasting Co. NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago... |
| 1943 | Married Helen Smathers (died 1969) |
| 1943-1957 | Correspondent, American Broadcasting Co American Broadcasting Company The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948... ., Washington, D.C. |
| 1952 | Awarded George Foster Peabody Award |
| 1957-1964 | Correspondent, National Broadcasting Co. |
| 1961 | Awarded Alfred I. DuPont Award DuPont-Columbia Award The Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award is an American award that honors excellence in broadcast journalism. The awards, administered since 1968 by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City, are considered a broadcast equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, another... |
| 1964-1968 | Bureau chief, Paris, France, and moderator of Face the Nation Face the Nation Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer is an American Sunday-morning political interview show which premiered on the CBS television network on November 7, 1954. It is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television... , Columbia Broadcasting System CBS CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of... |
| 1968 | Received Emmy Award Emmy Award An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various... |
| 1969 | News anchor, WTOP-TV WUSA (TV) WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network... , Washington, D.C. |
| 1969-1988 | Host, Agronsky and Company, WETA-TV WETA-TV WETA-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service member public televisionstation for the Washington, D.C., area. Its studios are in nearby Arlington, Virginia... , Washington, D.C. |
| 1971-1975 | Host, Martin Agronsky's Evening Edition and Agronsky at Large, Public Broadcasting System Public Broadcasting Service The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia.... |
| 1999, July 25 | Died, Washington, D.C. |