Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best-sellers Strictly Speaking and A Civil Tongue, ...

NEW YORK - Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A ...

NEW YORK — Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his best sellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A ...

It’s hard to refudiate that we lost one of our great TV journalists and guardians of the language with the recent death of NBC’s Edwin Newman. In fact, it’s impossible to refudiate – because ...

Regarding the Sept. 16 obituary for broadcaster Edwin Newman http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/15/AR2010091507593.html: Trying to use words ...

Veteran NBC newsman Edwin Newman has died, according to the Associated Press, which received word from Newman’s family today that he died of pneumonia on Aug. 13. (The family delayed the announcement ...

One of my professional heroes is Edwin Newman. He was a television, newspaper and radio journalist, but is most remembered for spending 23 years with NBC. I liked him best, however, for his books ...

In television newscasting nowadays, everybody’s got his own private beat. but NBC’s laconic Edwin Newman, 49. is a universalist, the one guy in the shop who is considered au courant on everything.

Edwin Newman, the genteelly rumpled, genially grumpy NBC newsman who was equally famous as a stalwart defender of the honor of English, has died in Oxford, England. He was 91. He died of pneumonia on ...

Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and spoofed himself on “Saturday Night Live” skits, died Aug. 13 of pneumonia in Oxford, England. He ...

Edwin Newman, who brought literacy, wit and energy to NBC newscasts for more than three decades, and battled linguistic pretense and clutter in his bestsellers "Strictly Speaking" and "A Civil Tongue, ...