The CBS World News Roundup is the longest-running network radio newscast in the United States.
It was the first time that on-the-scene European field correspondents were linked with a central anchor in New York for a national broadcast.
[3] Most broadcast references credit either CBS President William S. Paley or News Director Paul White as coming up with the idea for the show, as a way to trump Max Jordan's NBC coverage of the Anschluss.
The previous day, Shirer had flown from Vienna to London at the request of Murrow (the CBS European chief) to give the first uncensored eyewitness account of Germany's takeover of Austria.
The two, Murrow in Vienna and Shirer in London, then had the responsibility of linking up reporters and circuits that same day...a Sunday, when many of the key people would be mostly unreachable.
It was just before one 2:30 p.m. Eastern broadcast, on December 7, 1941, that White and World Today anchor John Charles Daly received word in New York that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.
The morning edition of the World News Roundup is anchored by Steve Kathan, and produced by Paul Farry.
[10] After Edwards retired, Glenn settled in as nighttime anchor until 1999, when he moved to the World News Roundup.
[11] Jim Chenevey, the longtime overnight anchor for CBS, moved to daytime and the Late Edition, but was let go in June 2020.
Peter King replaced her until April 2021 when Jennifer Keiper became the latest anchor of the World News Roundup Late Edition.
The longest tenured anchor of the program was Former CBS News National Correspondent Dan Raviv in Washington.