Eric Engberg

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Life

Engberg attended Highland Park High School (Class of 1959) in Highland Park, Illinois.[1] He graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism.[2]

He worked at WTOP-TV; WTOP-FM; WTOP from 1968 to 1972, then moved to Group W from 1972 until he joined CBS in 1976.

Bernard Goldberg listed, as a central example of media bias, an Engberg CBS Evening News Reality Check segment that ridiculed the flat tax proposal of Steve Forbes. Goldberg leveled this charge in his book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, and elsewhere.[3][4][5]

Engberg wrote disparagingly of the candidates' performance in the 2000 presidential debates.[6] He cautioned that anonymous sources are often misleading.[7]

Engberg died at his home in Palmetto, Florida, on March 27, 2016.[8]

Awards

During his career Engberg received several awards for his reporting, including 1973’s Sigma Delta Chi distinguished service award in Radio Reporting and 1998 Investigative Reporters and Editors award,[9] and 1999 Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award silver baton award.[10]

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