If you’ve been a broadcast journalist for any amount of time, you’ve had the experience of being compared to Walter Cronkite and chances are the comparison was not a favorable one. I’ve actually won a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Television Political Journalism, and accepting the award at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., might be one of the proudest moments of my career. The citation said my work on the 2016 campaign deserved to be celebrated for “demonstrating the honor of [my] profession.”
