Summer 2023
Talkback for Summer 2023
Letters from Washington State University alumni about Edward R. Murrow memories, autism research, and visiting the Arctic » More ...
Edward R. Murrow
Summer 2023
Great teachers are the brick and mortar
A landmark is renamed for a Washington State College icon who bested her serious illness and left a mentoring legacy. » More ...
Video: This is W.S.C. – 1952, featuring Edward R. Murrow
An introduction to Washington State College from 1952, narrated by Edward R. Murrow.
This film shows campus and student activities in 1952, from engineering students to football games to housing. Edward R. Murrow narrates the tour around WSC, which emphasizes research, practical training and extension mission as a land grant college.
Courtesy: WSU Libraries – Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Excerpt: 5 minutes, 32 seconds
Summer 2012
The Murrow boys
In 1913 Ethel and Roscoe Murrow moved their family from their small farm in North Carolina to the Puget Sound community of Blanchard hoping to find a better living for themselves and their three sons.
The worldwide fame of their youngest, Edward ’30, the broadcast journalist, over-shadowed the stories of the rest of the family, particularly the two older brothers. But Dewey x’26 and Lacey ’27, ’35 forged the path for him to follow to Washington State College in Pullman. They, too, led interesting and productive lives and influenced the development of the state. They deserve some attention in their own right, says J. Clark … » More …
The Battle Against Ignorance : An Interview with Bob Edwards
The former host of National Public Radio's Morning Edition talks about Murrow and his legacy with Mary Hawkins of Northwest Public Radio. » More ...
Fall 2004
Broadcasting as public service: Peter Jennings refreshes the Murrow vision
What would veteran newsman Peter Jennings tell students seeking a career in broadcasting today?
His wife posed the question to him when they were in Pullman for Washington State University’s 30th Edward R. Murrow Symposium April 14. The answer came that evening in Jennings’s presentation, after he accepted the Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcasting from WSU.
“If you believe that broadcasting is a public service, then please come into the profession,” he told the largely student audience of 2,500 in the Beasley Performing Arts Coliseum theater.
ABC’s World News Tonight anchor had been on assignment in Iraq a week earlier and shared some … » More …
Fall 2005
Where Have You Gone, Edward R. Murrow?
Edward R. Murrow '30 broadcasted reports from a London rooftop during
the Blitz. He confronted Joseph McCarthy on national television. And he
admitted "an abiding fear regarding what . . .[radio and TV] are doing
to our society, and our heritage." » More ...
Video: This is W.S.C. – 1952, featuring Edward R. Murrow
An introduction to Washington State College from 1952, narrated by Edward R. Murrow.
This film shows campus and student activities in 1952, from engineering students to football games to housing. Edward R. Murrow narrates the tour around WSC, which emphasizes research, practical training and extension mission as a land grant college.
Courtesy: WSU Libraries – Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Excerpt: 5 minutes, 32 seconds
Click here for the full video (22 minutes, 41 seconds)
Winter 2008
Murrow’s door
First came the doorknob.
The workers in the office of Washington State University’s school of communication didn’t know what to expect when the first of two shipments arrived from New York last spring. But they opened the box, took out the old doorknob and passed it around, wondering what sort of door it belonged to, wondering whose hands had touched it.
A few weeks earlier Darby Baldwin, an assistant in the dean’s office, had called two CBS retirees on the East Coast because the husband had written a thoughtful opinion piece about his time working with Edward R. Murrow. It turned out that Joe Wershba … » More …