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Mo Rocca Accepts Insight Award
By ChatGPT (with the aid of a human)
For Mo Rocca, storytelling has always been about more than entertainment. It’s also been a way to connect people to history, deepen understanding and spark curiosity about subjects they never expected to care about.
That passion for uncovering and sharing stories from the past was front and center when Rocca accepted the fifth annual LABF Insight Award at the 2026 NAB … MORE.
Smith v. Cronkite: A War of Words
By Harry A. Jessell
The CBS News half-hour primetime special of Feb. 28, 1968, is among the network’s most memorable and impacful.
After returning from a fact-finding trip to Vietnam, top anchor Walter Cronkite presented a clear-eyed report on the war. He concluded with his opinion that it had devolved into a bloody “stalemate” that could not be won without a massive U.S. escalation that would bring the world “closer to the brink of cosmic … MORE
Stations Must Save Their Archives
By Mary Collins
In the early 2000s, a college student working in a library at the University of Maryland pulled on headphones and carefully slipped an acetate transcription record from its protective sleeve. Despite its designation, the record was made of glass with a lacquer coating; it was typical for radio station pre-recordings from the 1930s through the 1940s.
The student marveled again that the disc remained unbroken and relatively well preserved despite having been retrieved from a dumpster by a radio station … MORE