Walter Winchell, the gossip-columnist star of newspapers and radio whose career was derailed in the television era, gets the “American Masters” treatment this week on PBS. Titled “Walter Winchell: The ...

Meet the columnist who pioneered the fast-paced journalism that dominates today. Meet Walter Winchell, the newspaper columnist, radio commentator and television personality who pioneered the ...

Born in New York City in 1897 to Jewish immigrants, Winchell launched his gossip columnist career when his works on theatre bulletin boards, which were “neatly typed and punctuated and contained often ...

Famed gossip columnist and radio newsman Walter Winchell, the subject of the American Masters documentary “Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip.” Bettmann Bettmann Archive / PBS Finding Your Roots (8 ...

-- "American Masters" (9 p.m., PBS, TV-PG, check local listings) profiles Walter Winchell, a media innovator whose story is simply too big to condense into a one-hour documentary. Largely forgotten ...

Walter Winchell was a syndicated columnist, radio news commentator and television host who pioneered the fast-paced, gossip driven, politically charged media culture that dominates today. At the ...

The age of entertainment-driven politics in which an actor or a reality-TV show host can be president had its origins with a popular newspaper columnist in the 1930s. Such is the premise of Ben ...

Much to the dismay of his many critics, Walter Winchell, wouldn’t — and still won’t — go away. An innovator of the gossip column and early radio idol, his style was unmistakable. He was the grandson ...

“Ohhh, my back,” groaned Walter Winchell, 61, as he soft-shoed through a cluster of show girls rehearsing in Las Vegas, Nev. “Feel this corset,” said the grand old man of keyhole journalism. “Go ahead ...

Walter Winchell, the gossip-columnist star of newspapers and radio whose career was derailed in the television era, gets the “American Masters” treatment this week on PBS. Titled “Walter Winchell: The ...

Finding Your Roots (8 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) - Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. uses DNA detective work to solve mysteries in the family trees of actress Tea Leoni and radio host Joe Madison. 2020 World Series ...