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Anchor, CBS Sunday Morning
Creator, The Osgood File
Profile
Life may not always make sense, but for decades Emmy Award-winning journalist Charles Osgood has made it rhyme. CBS News’ “Poet-in-Residence” is one of the gems of American broadcasting, a wise and wonderful presence on TV and radio.
Through his popular radio segments, The Osgood File, and his award-winning work as anchor of CBS Sunday Morning, Osgood has become an institution — a familiar face and voice to millions.
Taking over for the late Charles Kuralt in 1994, Osgood has continued CBS Sunday Morning’s long tradition of in-depth profiles, great reporting and wide-ranging coverage of current events, art, entertainment, science,
literature and culture. In 1997 Osgood won an Emmy for his interview with realist painter Andrew Wyeth.
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As anchor and writer of The Osgood File (his trademark commentaries for CBS Radio) Osgood combines poignant social commentary with an uncanny ability to find the irony and humor in everyday life. Often lighthearted and written in verse, The Osgood File has drawn one of the largest audiences of any network radio feature. It has won five Best in the Business Awards from the Washington Journalism Review.
In his speeches Osgood is charming, funny and may even play his banjo or the piano. His presentations — an entertaining mix of stories, insights and comedic banter — have delighted audiences for years.
Osgood has anchored and reported for CBS This Morning, CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and Walter Cronkite’s Universe. For seven years he anchored the CBS Sunday Night News.
His books include: Nothing Could Be Finer Than a Crisis That Is Minor in the Morning and There's Nothing I Wouldn't Do if You Would Be My POSSLQ (compilations of his best radio broadcasts); Osgood on Speaking: How to Think on Your Feet Without Falling on Your Face (a tongue-in-cheek guide to public speaking); and The Osgood Files (a collection of his syndicated newspaper columns).
Osgood’s other books are: See You on the Radio; Kilroy Was Here: The Best American Humor from World War II; Funny Letters from Famous People; and Defending Baltimore Against Enemy Attack (May 2004), a poignant memoir about growing up in Baltimore during WWII.
He is a trustee at the School of Strings in Manhattan. A longtime musician, he has played the piano on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and has performed with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, the New York Pops and the Boston Pops Orchestra.
Charles Osgood has won three Emmy Awards, three Peabody Awards and the International Radio and Television Society Award for Significant Achievement. He also has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame.