Obituaries--Daniel Schorr

Famed broadcast journalist Daniel Schorr, 93, has died. He was with CBS News for many, many years and was prominent during the Watergate scandal.

Schorr later joined CNN and then NPR and remained active almost to the end. He died in a Washington hospital early today.

This is interesting:

Schorr was born in the Bronx in 1916, the son of Belorussian immigrants. He got his first scoop at age 12, when he saw the body of a woman who had jumped or fallen from the roof of his apartment building. He called the police — and the Bronx Home News, which paid him $5 for the information.

"It was the first time I'd ever seen a dead person in my life," he told NPR's Robert Siegel in a 2006 interview on All Things Considered marking Schorr's 90th birthday.

"Why didn't I react more emotionally to that? It was the essential journalist who manages to absent himself from the situation and simply report it without feeling it," Schorr said.