Van gordon sauter biography of donald
At 47, Van Gordon Sauter is the fifth person to be president in the history of CBS News and the first to look like Ernest Hemingway, with a graying beard and.
After he became president of CBS News in , Mr. Sauter made drastic changes....
A talk with CBS News chief-to-be Van Gordon Sauter
As CBS News goes, so goes television news.
For many years that has been a maxim founded on the reputation of such household names as Edward R.
Murrow, Eric Sevareid, and Walter Cronkite, now reinforced by a new generation of such stalwarts as Bill Moyers, Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Bill Leonard.
Now there is a new name to consider: Van Gordon Sauter, the man who will soon take over officially as president of CBS News.
Is he up to the standard?
The last time I saw Sauter we were both serving on a panel on TV morality for the National Academy of TV Arts and Sciences in 1977. He was then vice-president of CBS program practices - in other words, the network censor.
His biographical data indicated that after graduating from the University of Missouri School of Journalism he worked on newspapers for a decade, after which he joined CBS as a news director, serving as CBS news bureau chief in Paris before his