Murray Fromson, who gained his first fame by being a
CBS correspondent, is well-known even today, as he is one of the rare "old-school" journalists who have an online blog. He is a journalism veteran and has had a career in journalism that spans for more than fifty years. He was the staff correspondent of numerous media organizations, for example, The Associated Press,
NBC News,
CBS, etc. Fromson was well known for his journalism activities abroad. He is a known critic of the United States post-war interventionism politics.
Fromson was reporting inland events in the United States, too. The topics he covered include presidential politics, the hippie movement and its anti-war themes, and general civil rights. Murray Fromson was born in 1929, The Bronx district, New York. He grew up in a Jewish family and studied in the Belmont High School in Los Angeles. Little is known about his former life, besides the fact that Murray had an interest in journalism from a very young age.
Fromson's first job as a foreign correspondent was going to Vietnam and reporting the departure of French troops. His specialty was correspondence trips the 20th century involvements of the U.S. After his fruitful years as a hired correspondent, he became a freelancing journalist and was active mainly in Central America and Cuba. His biggest achievement at
CBS was receiving two Overseas Press Club awards for the reports of the fall of Saigon (the capital of South Vietnam).
Even now, Murray is a correspondent in the earthquake-struck Haiti and takes part in many different political activities, from charity to presidential policies of the U.S. He has retained a lot of influence, and his blog is among the most read personal blogs of journalists. His homepage mainly focuses on the aforementioned issues he takes part in; the blog also serves as a memoir of sorts, as one can get a hold of Fromson's memories of the people he had met during his time as a journalist and correspondent.
Other highlights of his career include the "Chicago Seven" trial, the trial which raised a lot of questions about the safety of journalists and press freedom. During the Watergate scandal in the 60s, when the Nixon administration was a threat to modern press and its freedom, Fromson was among the activists who stood up against it. He is the creator of many press freedom organizations and clubs. He has also earned numerous journalism awards and remains a public humanist figure on the internet, where Fromson expresses opinions on the still present racism and other prominent issues in the United States.
Murray has been a Journalism professor at the University of South California since 1982, and this includes him working as the director of Annenberg School of Journalism for five years. He retired from teaching in 2006. Though not a well-known public figure like the other journalists of his time (Bettag, Chambers), Murray has remained a respected journalist, both for his years at
CBS and the Associated Press, as well as his long years of being a foreign correspondent in many hot spots of the world, for example, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Indonesia, Pakistan and others. We may hear from Murray again, as he is currently working on a memoir about the Cold War.
