page_title: Harry Reasoner
section_title: Journalism
hierarchical_section_title: Harry Reasoner / Journalism
caption_attribution_description: English: American journalist Harry Reasoner in a publicity photograph in 1955
context_page_description: Harry Truman Reasoner was an American journalist for CBS and ABC News, known for his inventive use of language as a television commentator, and as a founder of the long running 60 Minutes program.
  Over the course of his career, Reasoner won three Emmy Awards and a George Foster Peabody Award in 1967.
context_section_description: After going into radio with CBS in 1948, Reasoner worked for the United States Information Agency in the Philippines. When he returned to the US, he went into television and worked at station KEYD (later KMSP) in Minneapolis. He ran for Minneapolis city council as a Republican in 1949 and garnered 381 votes (4.4 percent). Reasoner later joined CBS News in New York, in 1956, where he eventually hosted a morning news program called Calendar from 1961 to 1963, on top of doing commentator and special news narration duties.
caption: Reasoner as an employee of the United States Information Agency
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