# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/douglas-edwards
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:27:11.316Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/douglas-edwards"
name: "Douglas Edwards"
slug: "douglas-edwards"
description: "Douglas Edwards was an American radio and television newscaster and correspondent who worked for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) for more than four decades. After six years on CBS Radio in the 1940s, Edwards was among the first major broadcast journalists to move into the rapidly expanding medium of television. He is also generally recognized as the first presenter or \"anchor\" of a nationally televised, regularly scheduled newscast by an American network. Edwards presented news on CBS television every weeknight for 15 years, from March 20, 1947, until April 16, 1962. Initially aired as a 15-minute program under the title CBS Television News, the broadcast evolved into the CBS Evening News and in 1963 expanded to a 30-minute format under Walter Cronkite, who succeeded Edwards as anchor of the newscast. Although Edwards left the evening news in 1962, he continued to work for CBS for another quarter of a century, presenting news reports on both radio and daytime television, and editing news features, until his retirement from the network on April 1, 1988."
tagline: "American television news anchor (1917–1990)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Douglas_Edwards_and_children_1955.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1917-07-14"
deathDate: "1990-10-13"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump