Herbert Morrison

Born

May 14, 1905

Died

January 10, 1989 (aged 83)

Known as

journalist, radio personality, television producer, radio journalist

Herbert Morrison was an American journalist whose charged radio report on the Hindenburg disaster is recognized as a landmark in broadcasting. Decades on from his 1937 report, he became the first news director at Pennsylvania's television station WTAE-TV. The writer Craig M. Allen describes him as "an early pioneer of both radio and television news".

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