[1] Schoenbrun enlisted in the Army in 1943 and became a World War II correspondent covering North Africa through to the liberation of France, for which he was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour.
After the war, from 1947 to 1964, Schoenbrun worked for CBS, serving primarily as the network's bureau chief in Paris, where he met and interviewed the President Charles de Gaulle a number of times.
In the mid-1970s, he served as a foreign affairs analyst for a short-lived public television channel in Los Angeles.
[citation needed] Schoenbrun is the author of On and Off the Air, a personal account of the history of CBS News through the 1970s.
Schoenbrun also wrote several books concerning World-War-II-era France and other works drawn from his experiences as a newsman.