AWARD DATE: 1966
AWARD NAME: Best TV Reporting From Abroad
AWARD RECIPIENT: Morley Safer
AWARD RECIPIENT AFFILIATION: CBS News
AWARD HONORED WORK: Coverage of Vietnam
Morley Safer of CBS News is a repeater. This is his second consecutive award in this category for his lucid, in-depth reports on the fighting in Vietnam.
Safer, a 35-year-old Canadian, came to CBS in 1964 after seven years with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He has reported for CBS from Sweden, the Congo, Nigeria and Cyprus. He covered the 1964 British election and the death of Winston Churchill.
While working for CBC, Safer was the only western correspondent in East Berlin the night Russians began building the Berlin wall.
Safer began his television career as a reporter in Toronto. He later became a correspondent and producer, and appeared on “CBC News magazine,” Canada’s oldest news series.
His newspaper jobs include the Woodstock Centennial Review (London, Ont.), the Free Press, the Oxford Mail and Times (England), and Reuters.