Weighing Anchors: When Network Newscasters Don't Know Write from Wrong
Mervin Block is a broadcast writing coach and the author of Broadcast News Writing and Writing News for TV & Radio. He has worked as a staff writer for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and the ABC Evening News with Frank Reynolds and as a freelancer at NBC News. He has written news for Ed Bradley, Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite, Douglas Edwards, Dan Rather, and Mike Wallace. In 2004, the Chicago Press Veterans Association elected him as Press Veteran of the Year. He lives in New York City.