Walter Cronkite, Voice of TV News, Dies - Nytimes

Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 92. Walter Cronkite Is Dead at Age 92

Media Decoder: Walter Cronkite, Iconic Anchorman, Dies at 92
Back then, “Cronkite” meant the news.