What was Edward R Murrow's style of Journalism and what impact did it have on the field of journalism?

According the the museum of Broadcast Communications, Edward R. Murrow is the most distinguished and renowned figure in the history of American broadcast journalism. He was a seminal force in the creation and development of electronic newsgathering as both a craft and a profession. 


Murrow's career began at CBS in 1935 and spanned the infancy of news and public affairs programming on radio through the ascendancy of television in the 1950s, as it eventually became the nation's most popular news medium. 


In 1961, Murrow left CBS to become director of the United States Information Agency for the new Kennedy administration. By that time, his peers were already referring to a "Murrow legend and tradition" of courage, integrity, social responsibility, and journalistic excellence, emblematic of the highest ideals of both broadcast news and the television industry in general.

In the Movie Good Night and Good Luck, his journalism style was portrayed as factual and no-nonsense.  He gave the public what they craved, news information that was informative and that kept you on the cutting edge of world affairs.  Even though the movie centered mostly on Murrow's aversion to Senator Joe R McCarthy's taking down of innocent people which McCarty viewed as Communist supporters throughout our nation, it portrayed the type of man that Edward R Murrow was, a man with integrity who believed in his career and craft of educating his listeners and then viewers on important topics that could change their lives or their perceptions of the world.