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Prominent Journalists Named to Hall of Fame (1981) |
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CHAPEL HILL -- Five of the nation's top journalists have been selected as the first members of the N.C. Journalism Hall of Fame. They are Charles Kuralt, CBS News correspondent; C.A. McKnight, former Charlotte Observer and Charlotte News editor; Vermont Royster, editor emeritus of The Wall Street Journal; Tom Wicker, managing editor of The New York Times; and the late Josephus Daniels, Raleigh News and Observer publisher and statesman. All are North Carolina natives.
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Kuralt, 46, is perhaps best-known for his "On the Road" feature series for the CBS Evening News and his "Sunday Morning" news and feature program. Recently he became the host of "Morning, " a weekday news program for CBS. Kuralt began his journalism career as editor of The Daily Tar Heel, the UNC-CH student paper. He left Carolina in 1955 to become a reporter and columnist for The Charlotte News. He won the Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on public school desegregation in 1956. |
