Longtime NBC news anchor Edwin Newman has died. Newman was known not only for his reporting chops, but also for his linguistic finesse. Newman served a stint during World War II in the U.S. Navy, then ...

Regarding the Sept. 16 obituary for broadcaster Edwin Newman http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507593.html: Trying to use words ...

Edwin Newman, the genteelly rumpled, genially grumpy NBC newsman who was equally famous as a stalwart defender of the honor of English, has died in Oxford, England. He was 91. He died of pneumonia on ...

In television newscasting nowadays, everybody’s got his own private beat. but NBC’s laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything.

NEW YORK - Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A ...

One of my professional heroes is Edwin Newman. He was a television, newspaper and radio journalist, but is most remembered for spending 23 years with NBC. I liked him best, however, for his books ...

In a tribute to legendary NCB journalist Edwin Newman, who recently passed on, let us also bury the following catch phrases: "the bottom line," "at the end of the day," "it doesn't take a rocket ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Journalist Edwin Newman, who helped anchor NBC newscasts for three decades with a reputation as an articulate, fair interviewer and a trusted moderator of U.S. presidential ...

The Francis Mahoneys of Lenox will be the "first family" in the nation tonight when NBC-TV presents "The American Family — An Endangered Species?" from 8 to 11 p.m. with news correspondents Edwin ...