Burns,+Eric

Biographical Information:
Dates: 1945- Dates in Ridgefield: 2013-

author, playwright, media critic, former broadcast journalist

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From FoxNews.com: "The recipient of an Emmy Award for media criticism, Burns kicked off his career as a correspondent for NBC News. He appeared regularly on //NBC Nightly News// and had his own segment, called "Cross-Country," on the //Today// show. For his work with NBC, Burns was named one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism, joining such luminaries as Edward R. Murrow, Charles Kuralt, Eric Sevareid, Harry Reasoner and David Brinkley (//Washington Journalism Review,// February, 1985) and a script of his appears in the prestigious college text, //Writing News for Broadcast// (Columbia University Press)//,// which refers to Burns as an "artist" with words.

Burns was a commentator for //Entertainment Tonight//, as well as the host of //Arts & Entertainment Revue//, on the A&E cable network.

In addition, Burns is the author of four critically-saluted books: //The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol// (Temple University Press, 2004) //Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium// (HarperCollins, 1993), //The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader// (Prometheus, 1995), and a short work of fiction, //The Autograph// (Prometheus, 1997). He has written on matters of media and popular culture for such magazines as //Reader's Digest//, //The Weekly Standard//, //Spy, TV Guide// and //Family CIrcle,// in addition to such newspapes as the //New York Post// and //Los Angeles Times."//

Eric Burns was also the program host/moderator of Fox News Channel's acclaimed Fox News Watch for ten years from1998 to 2008. Born in Pittsburgh, Burns attended Westminster College in New Wilmington, PA and received a B.A. English.

Titles:
//The Joy of Books//, 1995 //Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol//, 2004 //The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco//, 2006 //Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginings of American Journalism//, 2007 //Virtue, Valor, and Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame//, 2007 //All the News Unfit to Print,// 2009 //Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television's Conquest of America in the Fifties//, 2010

-Sources: amazon.com, [|www.foxnews.com]