Charles Collingwood | Salary Undisclosed

Charles Collingwood was a journalist and war correspondent who was a member of Edward R. Murrow’s group of correspondents called the “Murrow Boys.” During World War II, Collingwood covered North Africa and Europe for CBS News. He was also among the ranks of founding TV journalists in the U.S., including Eric Sevareid, Walter Cronkite, and Murrow himself.

For his services for United Press in London, Collingwood covered World War II and was then hired by Edward R. Murrow to work for CBS in the early ’40s. He established himself as a spontaneously eloquent and urbane on-air journalist. He displayed his reporting abilities and investments when he covered the North African Campaign in 1942. Collingwood then served as CBS’ chief correspondent and host of its Eyewitness to History show. In the late ’50s, he succeeded his peer Edward R. Murrow as anchor of Person to Person.