Howard K. Smith | Salary Undisclosed

Howard Smith was a radio and TV reporter whose career spanned several decades until his passing back in 2002.

Smith was one of the members of the Murrow Boys, a group of war correspondents who covered World War II. He was one of the CBS broadcast journalists who were associated with Edward Murrow during the war coverage. Post-war, Smith worked for CBS in London as the chief European correspondent and later on hosted his show Behind the News with Howard K. Smith, a 21-week public affairs series. By the 1960s, Smith left his long-time home network to join ABC. He hosted shows such as Issues and Answers, which eventually was renamed into This Week with David Brinkley and ABC Evening News. Apart from being a news anchor, Smith also devoted his time to being a book author. Some of his books with his name on the credit are The Last Train from Berlin and Events Leading Up To My Death.