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Edward R. Murrow

1908 - 1965

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Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965) was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS. During the war he recruited and worked closely with a team of war correspondents who came to be known as the Murrow Boys. A pioneer of radio and television news broadcasting, Murrow produced a series of reports on his television program See It Now which helped lead to the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward R. Murrow has received more than 2,442,632 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Edward R. Murrow is the 49th most popular journalist (up from 55th in 2019), the 4,141st most popular biography from United States (up from 4,670th in 2019) and the 16th most popular American Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.74

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Edward R. Murrow ranks 49 out of 196. Before him are Ara Güler, Letizia Battaglia, Maria Ressa, Eve Arnold, Marta Hillers, and Joaquín Navarro-Valls. After him are Marion Dönhoff, Mauricio Funes, Sue Gardner, Yuri Bezmenov, Kazimierz Nowak, and Robbie Ross.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Edward R. Murrow ranks 177. Before him are Bobojon Ghafurov, Pál Titkos, Jack Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Karl Hohmann, and Héctor Trujillo. After him are Jorge Oteiza, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, Alfons Rebane, Štefan Čambal, Pedro Arico Suárez, and Thurgood Marshall. Among people deceased in 1965, Edward R. Murrow ranks 104. Before him are Maria Dąbrowska, Daniel-Rops, Wilhelm Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Dorothy Dandridge, Píndaro de Carvalho Rodrigues, and Jānis Balodis. After him are Clemente Micara, John Kitzmiller, Georges Vantongerloo, Judy Holliday, Laureano Gómez, and Roger Vailland.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Edward R. Murrow ranks 4,141 out of 20,380. Before him are Floyd Council (1911), Edward Bellamy (1850), Kim Darby (1947), John Petrucci (1967), Andreas Katsulas (1946), and Eugene Odum (1913). After him are Lucian Pulvermacher (1918), Gregory Benford (1941), Alan Sokal (1955), Nick Cravat (1912), Milt Jackson (1923), and John Henry Schwarz (1941).

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Among JOURNALISTS In United States

Among journalists born in United States, Edward R. Murrow ranks 16. Before him are Steve McCurry (1950), Walker Evans (1903), Margaret Bourke-White (1904), Joe Rosenthal (1911), Eddie Adams (1933), and Eve Arnold (1912). After him are Marie Colvin (1956), Dan Rather (1931), James Nachtwey (1948), Pauline Pfeiffer (1895), James Foley (1973), and Malcolm Browne (1931).

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