Ed Bradley

Ed Bradley is best known for his reporting on CBS News and his 25-year-long tenure with news magazine 60 Minutes. Born in Philadelphia, his career in broadcasting began by volunteering with Philadelphia radio news station WDAS-FM. 

Bradley, however, was not always destined for journalism. He graduated with a degree in education at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania and went on to become an elementary school teacher, while volunteering with WDAS-FM in the evenings. After he spent two days covering a Philadelphia race riot, the station began paying Bradley an hourly wage. He stopped teaching once he joined WCBS radio as a reporter. 

In 1989, Bradley won awards for two of his CBS reports, The Boat People and Blacks In America: With All Deliberate Speed? Throughout his career on 60 Minutes, he received four George Foster Peabody Awards and 19 Emmy awards. 

Accomplishments:

• Named one of the “100 Outstanding American Journalists in the last 100 years” in 2012 by faculty at New York University

• First African American White House correspondent for CBS News

• 19 Emmy awards and four Peabody Awards for his reporting