.jpg) July 20, 2008 Guest – Charles Osgood
Program: Blessed Deadlines
Broadcast journalist. Born Charles Osgood
Wood on January 8, 1933 in New York.
After graduating from Fordham University, Osgood landed a job at ABC
News in Manhattan, where he dropped his surname because the network
already had a newsman named Charles Woods. He spent four years reporting
for ABC radio and television.
In 1967, he became a reporter for CBS' Newsradio 88. After being called in as a last-minute weekend anchor
replacement, Osgood joined the CBS network in 1971. There, he
co-anchored the CBS Morning News and contributed to the CBS
Evening News with Dan Rather. He was a reporter for the CBS science
broadcast Walter Cronkite's Universe and, from 1981 to 1987,
anchored the Sunday Night News. In 1994, he became anchor of
Sunday Morning, for which he earned one Peabody and three Emmy
Awards.
Osgood currently hosts The Osgood
File, a three-minute show that is broadcast each weekday morning on
over 400 radio stations nationwide. With topics ranging from breaking
news to human interest vignettes (earning him the title of CBS’ Poet in
Residence), he has become a drive time staple. During his more than
25-year tenure, Osgood's radio program has won two Peabody Awards and
the Edward R. Murrow Award.
Osgood has written five books,
including Nothing Could be Finer Than a Crisis That is Minor in the
Morning (1979), The Osgood File (1991) and See You On The
Radio (1999). |
