# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/winston-burdett
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:41:37.485Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/winston-burdett"
name: "Winston Burdett"
slug: "winston-burdett"
description: "Winston Burdett was an American broadcast journalist and correspondent for the CBS Radio Network during World War II and later for CBS television news. During the war he became a member of Edward R. Murrow's team of war correspondents known as the Murrow Boys. From 1937 to 1942 Burdett was involved with the Communist Party. He testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 1955, detailing his espionage work for the Soviet Union in Europe and naming dozens of other party members."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Winston_Burdett_crop_ARC-96009.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1913-12-12"
deathDate: "1993-05-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.1
  momentum:             0.4419889502762431
  historical:           4.406804
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "وينستون بورديت"
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    title: "Winston Burdett"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8026045"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump