William L. Shirer
American journalist
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Communications
William L. Shirer's Degrees
- Bachelors Journalism Coe College
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Lawrence Shirer was an American journalist and war correspondent. He wrote The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a history of Nazi Germany that has been read by many and cited in scholarly works for more than 50 years. Originally a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the International News Service, Shirer was the first reporter hired by Edward R. Murrow for what became a CBS radio team of journalists known as "Murrow's Boys". He became known for his broadcasts from Berlin, from the rise of the Nazi dictatorship through the first year of World War II . Along with Murrow, he organized the first broadcast world news roundup, a format still followed by news broadcasts.
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