MARTIN AGRONSKY

'Martin Agronsky' was a long-time American news media figure and a fixture of political journalism in Washington, DC in the second half of the twentieth century. He began his career in newspaper journalism, transitioned to radio, and then was successful in television, where he was a political correspondent and commentator of his own syndicated program between 1943 and 1988. His coverage of the Adolf Eichmann trial in Israel won him the Alfred I. DuPont Award (now known as the DuPont-Columbia Award) in 1962.

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Biographical chronology

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Biographical chronology

Date	Event
1915, Jan. 12	Born, Philadelphia, Pa.
1936	B.A., Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.
1936-1937	Reporter, ''Palestine Post''
1937-1940	Freelance newspaper reporter
1940-1943	Foreign correspondent, National Broadcasting Co.
1943	Married Helen Smathers (died 1969)
1943-1957	Correspondent, American Broadcasting Co., Washington, D.C.
1952	Awarded George Foster Peabody Award
1957-1964	Correspondent, National Broadcasting Co.
1961	Awarded Alfred I. DuPont Award
1964-1968	Bureau chief, Paris, France, and moderator of ''Face the Nation'', Columbia Broadcasting System
1968	Received Emmy Award
1969	News anchor, WTOP-TV, Washington, D.C.
1969-1987	Host, ''Agronsky and Company'', WETA-TV, Washington, D.C.
1971-1975	Host, ''Martin Agronsky's Evening Edition'' and ''Agronsky at Large'', Public Broadcasting System
1999, July 25	Died, Washington, D.C.

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Manuscript Division, Library of Congress