News and Documentary describes shows that feature the news of the day, an in-depth and/or investigative report, or an historical record.
News and Documentary
"I had to look straight into the camera and convey as much a sense of seriousness as I could muster. But the stories I covered called for that anyway." - Lesley Stahl, News Correspondent
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- 20/20
- 6
- 60 Minutes
- A
- ABC News
- ABC News Nightline
- America in Primetime
- American Family, An
- Arrest and Trial
- C
- CBS News
- CBS Reports
- CBS Reports: "The Selling of the Pentagon"
- Civil War, The
- E
- Eye Witness (1947-48, NBC)
- F
- Face the Nation
- H
- Huntley-Brinkley Report, The
- M
- Meet the Press
- N
- NBC News
- P
- Police Tapes, The
- R
- Race for Space, The
- S
- See It Now
- T
- Today
- Twentieth Century, The
- W
- Wide Wide World
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Highlights
Lesley Stahl on the process of doing a story for 60 Minutes (03m 17s)
Walter Cronkite on what he observes to be a deterioration of the quality of news programs and why (03m 30s)
Tim Russert on moderating Meet the Press, his approach to interviews and his broadcast philosophy (15m 50s)
Barbara Walters on her approach to interviewing (08m 24s)
Sam Donaldson on the competitive nature of ABC News in the 1970s as they tried to scoop CBS or NBC (01m 03s)
Walter Cronkite on the subtle differences in TV journalism between editorials, commentary, and analysis (02m 05s)- Walter Cronkite on how "intimate" television was in the early days of news broadcasting (04m 05s)
Betty Cole Dukert on covering the Vietnam war on Meet the Press ; the challenges of getting interviews
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