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Daniel Schorr,Veteran journalist
Sunday, March 28

A former CNN correspondent, Daniel Schorr is now senior news analyst for National Public Radio. As a reporter, Schorr has covered every major Cold War event since the Yalta summit.Schorr's career as a journalist spans the last half-century. Beginning in 1946, he worked for 20 years as a foreign correspondent, reporting for The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times and CBS News. While at CBS, Schorr landed the first-ever exclusive television interview with a Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev in 1957. In 1960, as CBS bureau chief for Germany and Eastern Europe, Schorr covered the Berlin crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall. By the 1970's, Schorr was back in the United States, serving as CBS's chief Watergate correspondent. After a brief stint as a professor of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, Schorr returned to television in 1979 to help Ted Turner create the Cable News Network, serving in Washington as its senior correspondent. He left the network in 1985 and has since worked as a commentator for NPR. Schorr is the recipient of numerous awards including the Peabody Award in 1993 "for a lifetime of uncompromising reporting of the highest integrity."