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	Fred W. Friendly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fred W. Friendly (October 30, 1915–March 3, 1998) was the former president of CBS News and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now.
		Friendly was born Ferdinand Friendly Wachenheimer to a Jewish family in New York City.
		Friendly later wrote, directed and produced the summer 1950 NBC Radio series The Quick and the Dead,about the development of the atomic bomb, which featured Trout, Bob Hope and New York Times writer Bill Lawrence (who covered the original Manhattan Project).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Friendly (815 words)

	A Tribute to Fred Friendly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Friendly put principle into practice as president of CBS News from 1964-1966, resigning in protest over the network’s decision to an "I Love Lucy" rerun instead of broadcasting live coverage of Senate hearings on the Vietnam War.
		Friendly and Murrow used clips of Red-baiting speeches and harassing of Senate witnesses to make the case against McCarthyism, and used their own money to take out an add in The New York Times when CBS, which was reluctant to air the program, refused to promote it.
		Fred Friendly's lifelong commitment to press freedom helped to form a profession that is forever in his debt.
	www.cpj.org /awards97/fred.html (337 words)

	Friendly, Fred W. on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Friendly was executive producer of CBS Reports” (1959-64), and president of CBS News (1964-66).
		Fred Friendly, ex-CBS News president, dies at 82
		Fred Friendly laid to rest, a copy of the Constitution in his pocket
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/F/FriendlyF1.asp (401 words)

	Before I Die: Fred Friendly Seminars
		The format of the Fred Friendly Seminars was developed and refined by Friendly and Sucherman over the course of 20 years.
		Fred Friendly began his career in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1937, where he created a daily five-minute program, FOOTPRINTS IN THE SANDS OF TIME, for WEAN.
		Friendly turned his attention to teaching as an Edward R. Murrow Professor of Journalism at Columbia University, and helped to firmly establish a public broadcasting system through his work with the Ford Foundation.
	www.thirteen.org /bid/p-friendly.html (879 words)

	National Review: The testimony of Fred Friendly.(Brief Article)(... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fred Friendly was the producer of the famous series of documentaries spoken by Edward R. Murrow.
		He was called to the Office of the Dean at Columbia, who told Friendly that he was wanted as a tenured professor of journalism and that all the red tape, the usual business, could in his case be waived.
		When it came Friendly's turn to plead for his television documentaries and analyses he would speak in tempestuous tones about the vital nature of the work in hand and of good and evil.
	highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20632875&refid=ip_almanac_hf (810 words)

	AllRefer.com - Fred W. Friendly (Film, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Fred W. Friendly 1915–98, American broadcaster and author, b.
		Friendly was executive producer of "CBS Reports"(1959–64), and president of CBS News (1964–66).
		After resigning from CBS in a dispute over ratings, he became Edward R. Murrow professor of journalism at Columbia Univ. and was adviser (until 1980) to the Ford Foundation.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/F/FriendlyF.html (306 words)

	WNET to Air Columbia University's Fred Friendly Seminar on "Liberty and Security in an Age of Terrorism," Dec. 18
		The Fred Friendly Seminar participants, including Columbia University President and First Amendment scholar Lee C. Bollinger, ACLU President Nadine Strossen, former U.S. attorney Mary Jo White, and Patriot Act author Viet Dinh, recently met at the University's Miller Theatre to videotape a discussion based on a hypothetical scenario.
		This Fred Friendly Seminar preceded the scheduled colloquium by Columbia faculty and other noted scholars from around the world, entitled "Constitutions, Democracy and the Rule of Law," for the opening of the University's 250th anniversary celebration.
		In the aftermath of Watergate, the late Fred Friendly, a pioneering CBS News producer, and later Edward R. Murrow professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, developed the Seminar's format to encourage constructive debate between the news media and the judiciary.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/12/fred_friendly_seminar.html (676 words)

	Powell's Books - Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control by Fred W Friendly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When Fred Friendly's powerful examination of broadcast news was published in 1967, it was judged by The New Yorker to be "an engrossing professional memoir." and it quickly leaped onto The New York Times bestseller list.
		Friendly also recounts his resignation as president of CBS News in 1966, when the network ran reruns of I Love Lucy instead of Senate hearings on the war in Vietnam.
		Friendly predicted the conquest of mainstream media by sensationalism, the creation of a public broadcasting network, and the revolution that satellite communications would unleash in news gathering.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=2-081293136x-4 (386 words)

	CNN - Former CBS President Fred Friendly dies - March 4, 1998
		NEW YORK (CNN) -- Fred Friendly, the pioneering television producer and onetime president of CBS News, has died at 82 after suffering a series of strokes.
		Friendly later wrote, "I must confess that in my almost two years as the head of CBS News I tempered my news judgment and tailored my conscience more than once.
		Friendly said their purpose was "to open minds and to make the agony of decision-making so intense that you can escape only by thinking." But he cited the minority training program as his proudest achievement.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/9803/04/friendly.obit (903 words)

	Friendly, Fred
		Fred W. Friendly, a pioneering CBS News producer and distinguished media scholar, enjoyed a sixty-year career as remarkable for its longevity as for its accomplishments.
		The successful combination of Friendly's energy and Murrow's stature hit its professional peak in 1954, with their decision to broadcast a documentary attack on Senator Joseph McCarthy that helped change the tide of popular opinion against the anti-communist demagogue.
		As president of CBS News in the mid-1960s, Friendly struggled to keep his news division independent of profit-conscious and entertainment-oriented corporate decision-making at CBS Inc., which he considered a threat to the autonomy and integrity of his news operations.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/F/htmlF/friendlyfre/friendlyfre.htm (805 words)

	Fred Friendly, Broadcast Giant, Media Conscience and Columbia Professor, Dies at Age 82. Columbia University Record, ...
		Friendly was the Edward R. Murrow Professor of Journalism at Columbia from 1966 to 1979 and continued at the school as a special lecturer until 1990.
		Friendly was born Oct. 30, 1915, in New York City and was educated in New York and Providence, R.I., public schools, Cheshire Academy and Nichols College.
		Later, Friendly became executive producer of the acclaimed CBS Reports,” which included such memorable documentaries as “Harvest of Shame” and “The Other Face of Dixie.” He was named president of CBS News in 1964.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol23/vol23_iss18/28.html (808 words)

	Current Online \| Fred Friendly dies, 1998
		Fred W. Friendly, the legendary CBS News producer who tried to bring innovation to public TV in the 1960s and later developed a celebrated series of televised seminars on major public policy issues, died March 3 at his home in New York City.
		Friendly and Bundy supported the spinoff of NET's Washington Bureau as the National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT), which was later attacked by the Nixon White House.
		Friendly is survived by his wife, three children from an earlier marriage, three stepchildren and 10 grandchildren.
	www.current.org /people/peop805f.html (908 words)

	2004 Senior Experience Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Fred Friendly Seminars is dedicated to quality public television programs and seminars that challenge the great leaders of today with societyís most important issues.
		As an intern at the Fred Friendly Seminars, located at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, I participated in many aspects of the development of the seminars and conferences.
		Interning at the Fred Friendly Seminars was a great, unique experience for me. I learned how a non-profit media organization runs, by participating in the office meetings and attending the seminar tapings and exclusive conferences.
	www.bergen.org /cgi-bin/senexp/2004list.pl?action=More&idnum=125 (318 words)

	Lost and Found Sound: The Stories
		And poetry it is. The way Friendly turns a phrase - strong and with a punch - out of his mouth, through the air, over the radio.
		It was a time when the country was on the verge of entering World War II, and Friendly's spontaneous remarks on a local Providence radio station communicate his pride in a powerful nation.
		He also sent a copy to Friendly, before he died in March 1998, who replied with a letter of thanks.
	www.npr.org /programs/lnfsound/stories/991001.stories.html (185 words)

	Fred W. Friendly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After leaving CBS Friendly went on to create the Fred Friendly Seminars.
		It was in this role that Friendly (who changed his name during his Providence days) first worked with Murrow on the Columbia Records historical albums, I Can Hear It Now.
		It was there that Friendly came up with the idea for the news-oriented quiz show Who Said That?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_W._Friendly (815 words)

	PBS Show Explores Challenges of Chronic Illness Faced by Patients, Care Professionals and Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fred Friendly Seminars used a one-year, $1.2 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to produce Who Cares: Chronic Illness in America, a one-hour PBS special that explored the challenges confronted every day by health care professionals and families coping with chronic illness.
		Prior to the PBS broadcast, Fred Friendly Seminars contracted with Kelly and Salerno Communications, a public relations firm in Greenwich, Conn., to tape radio interviews with John Hockenberry about the premiere of Who Cares; the interviews reached an estimated 5 million listeners, with ads on National Public Radio reaching an additional 14 million.
		Fred Friendly Seminars coordinated additional outreach activities in Massachusetts (Boston), Idaho and Connecticut, and provided grants totaling $30,000 to organizations at the community level to underwrite outreach activities.
	www.rwjf.org /reports/grr/039268.htm (1361 words)

	News Archive - Beyond Terror: A Fred Friendly Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reporting on Terrorism: the News Media and Public Health is the topic of a Fred Friendly Seminar at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism on January 30-31, 2004.
		Seminar participants will attend a Fred Friendly Socratic dialogue based on a "what if?" case study and participate in a number of panels and discussions, featuring a "who's who" list of public health clinicians and practioners, law enforcement officials and journalists.
		Richard Kilberg, president of the Fred Friendly Seminars, said the program was created to close the gap between what he believes is a "persistent disconnection between official policy and pronouncements regarding the threat of terrorist attacks and the absorption of the meaning and consequences of those pronouncements by average American citizens."
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /news/2003-11/terror.asp (553 words)

	Quinnipiac University \| Annual Fred Friendly award presented to Tom Bettag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ruth Friendly, shares a hug with Tom Bettag, the 2004 Fred Friendly Award Recipient.
		Quinnipiac's School of Communications presents the Fred Friendly Award to honor those who have shown courage and forthrightness in preserving the rights set forth in the First Amendment.
		Friendly's widow, Ruth, told the 150 people assembled for the luncheon May 4 at the Metropolitan Club in New York City that she first met Bettag in 1968, when he was a teaching assistant for her husband, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /x11117.xml (778 words)

	Friendly, Fred W. -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Friendly societies arose in the 17th and 18th centuries and were most numerous in the 19th century.
		Astronaut Fred W. Haise, Jr., was the lunar module pilot of the Apollo 13 spacecraft, which launched on April 11, 1970, on a U.S. mission to land on the moon.
		U.S. humorist Fred Allen influenced a generation of radio and television performers with his dry wit and superb timing.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9123886 (738 words)

	FRED - the friendly editor.
		FRED is a powerful interactive text editor now available under TSS through the UW Tools package.
		FRED can handle both TSS ASCII and BCD card-image files, it can execute user-specified programs, and it can perform all ordinary text-editing functions.
		A full description of FRED can be obtained through the explain files listed in "expl fred index".
	www.thinkage.ca /english/gcos/expl/fred/expl.html (156 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control. . . (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It has been said that Friendly and Edward R. Murrow invented television journalism; certainly their program See It Now set a standard for journalistic courage and principle that in many ways has rarely been equaled.
		After it was replaced by quiz shows that earned higher ratings, Friendly went on to produce other important news programming and, ultimately, became president of CBS News.
		"To follow Fred Friendly into battle is to enter the fray with one of the pioneering giants of broadcast journalism--a man who believed television news can and should be great and who fought for that vision with passion and courage.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/081293136X (453 words)

	Eugene (Oregon) Friendly Area Neighbors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Friendly Neighborhood is a residential area of southwest Eugene, Oregon.
		The street in turn was named for Sam Friendly, a much-loved 19th-century Mayor of Eugene and one of the far-sighted individuals who secured the University of Oregon for Eugene.
		His direct descendant was Fred Friendly, the internationally renowned broadcaster and journalist.
	homepage.mac.com /friendlyarea/garden03.htm (158 words)

	EPIDEMIC! A Fred Friendly Seminar: About Fred Friendly
		In 1959, Fred Friendly became Executive Producer of the acclaimed CBS Reports, which included the memorable documentary Harvest of Shame.
		In 1974, Friendly began a series of conferences to engage journalists, judges, lawyers, business executives and government officials in dialogues over how the media and newsmakers interact.
		The initiative became the Columbia University Seminars on Media and Society, and is now known as The Fred Friendly Seminars.
	www.pbs.org /fredfriendly/epidemic/program/pages/fredFriendly.html (260 words)

	Quinnipiac University \| Adler named Fred Friendly Professor of Broadcast Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Fred Friendly Professorship will be a permanent position in the School of Communications.
		Now in its 12th year, the Annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award will be presented to Tim Russert on May 23.
		"Fred Friendly was and remains an idol to me in my career and in my life.
	www.quinnipiac.edu /x14949.xml (421 words)

	AP Online: Colleagues honor Fred Friendly, a pioneering journalist@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		NEW YORK (AP) _ Former colleagues paid tribute to Fred W. Friendly, the former CBS News president and documentary producer, as a standard-setter and standard-bearer for television news.
		Friendly died Tuesday at age 82 after a series of small strokes.
		Friendly teamed with Edward R. Murrow in creating some of television's most groundbreaking documentaries, among them a ``See it Now'' report that hastened the downfall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s and 1961's ``Harvest of Shame,'' about migrant farm workers, which won Friendly...
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	Fred Friendly
		FRED FRIENDLY: 12915 - 1998: TV giant was 'newsman's newsman': CBS producer embodied history of broadcast news (The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)
		Interview: Fred Friendly discusses a series of critical reports aired on Senator Joseph McCarthy at the hight of his power (Weekly Edition (NPR))
		TELEVISION NEWS PIONEER FRED FRIENDLY DEAD AT 82 (World News Tonight with Peter Jennings)
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0748294.html (164 words)

	Fred Friendly
		A pioneer of television journalism, Fred Friendly helped to "invent" TV news.
		He fought for the independence of news organizations from the corporate owners trying to maintain the "status quo." When, as producer of the CBS series See It Now, Friendly could not get the network to promote an episode on the red-baiting of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, he paid for the advertisements (in the NY Times!) himself.
		He went on to become a driving force behind the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a professor of Journalism at Columbia University, and the creator of the Columbia University Media and Society Seminars.
	faculty.roosevelt.edu /Fallon/fred_friendly.html (173 words)

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