Complex sentence: CBS did not have news staff when Murrow joined, save for announcer Bob Trout; his job was to line up newsmakers who would appear on the network to talk about the issues of the day.
Split into simpler sentences: CBS did not have news staff when Murrow joined, save for announcer Bob Trout. Murrow's job was to line up newsmakers who would appear on the network to talk about the issues of the day.