Sony Pictures is mulling a biopic of legendary news man Walter Cronkite, Variety has learned. The “Spider-Man” studio has tapped screenwriter David Rothley to adapt esteemed academic Douglas ...

A new report revealed that Sony Pictures is developing a biopic about Walter Cronkite, adapted from Douglas Brinkley's 2012 ...

Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist, best known as anchorman for the CBS Evening News for 19 years (1962–81). During the heyday of CBS ...

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Watching old clips of Walter Cronkite as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" has the faint whiff of "Mad Men" nostalgia to it - in the best possible way. His heyday as what was ...

President Barack Obama speaks during a memorial service for CBS newsman Walter Cronkite at the Lincoln Center in New York City on Sept. 9, 2009. Cronkite, a Missouri native, is back in the news ...

Ask anyone over the age of 40, and he or she will likely say that the last great American broadcast journalist was Walter Cronkite. From 1937 until 1981, Cronkite reported on many important events in ...

Just 48 hours before Dan Rather steps down under a cloud as anchor of the CBS newscast he's helmed for 24 years, the guy he squeezed out said Rather should've been replaced years ago. After nearly a ...