Daniel Schorr: An appreciation
Daniel Schorr, a journalist whose fierce independence landed him on President Nixon’s enemies list and whose award-winning 62-year career spanned newspapers, radio and television, died Friday.
Daniel Schorr appears before the House Ethics Committee September 15, 1976.
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Daniel Schorr, a journalist whose fierce independence landed him on President Nixon’s enemies list and whose award-winning 62-year career spanned newspapers, radio and television, died Friday.
Mr. Schorr, who began his career in 1948 as a stringer in the Netherlands for The Christian Science Monitor and in 1953 became part of Edward R. Murrow’s famed team of CBS News foreign correspondents, never stopped working. His last on-air appearance, at age 93, was on NPR’s Weekend Edition July 10 when he joined host Scott Simon to review the week’s news.
“In a business that’s known for burning out people, Dan Schorr shined for nearly a century,” Mr. Simon said in a statement. Schorr began working for NPR in the late 1970s and became a senior news analyst for the organization in 1985.
While at NPR, he continued writing for the Monitor. From 1986 to 2007, Schorr wrote 750 opinion columns for the paper. In March 2009, as the Monitor was moving from daily print to an online-first format, Schorr penned his last Monitor piece – a remembrance of being hired by the paper’s legendary foreign editor, Charles Gratke. “He was a great editor of a great newspaper,” Schorr wrote.
