Life

Engberg attended Highland Park High School

Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois)

Highland Park High School, or HPHS, is a public four-year high school located in Highland Park, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Township High School District 113, which also includes Deerfield High School.Prior to the 1949–50 school year, the...

 (Class of 1959) in Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a suburban municipality in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago. As of 2009, the population is 33,492. Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago Metropolitan Area.-Overview:Highland Park was founded...

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He graduated from the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

 School of Journalism.

He worked at WTOP-TV

WUSA (TV)

WUSA is a television station broadcasting on channel 9 in Washington, D.C.. Owned by the Gannett Company, WUSA is an affiliate of the CBS television network, and the longest-tenured affiliate of that network...

; WTOP-FM

WTOP-FM

WTOP is an all-news formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Washington, D.C., serving Metropolitan Washington, DC area. WTOP is owned by Hubbard Broadcasting.WTOP is one of two all-news stations in the Washington, D.C...

; WTOP-AM from 1968 to 1972, then moved to Group W from 1972 until he joined CBS in 1976. A report by Engberg in a CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963....

 segment, Reality Check, was used as a central example of bias

Bias

Bias is an inclination to present or hold a partial perspective at the expense of alternatives. Bias can come in many forms.-In judgement and decision making:...

 in the media in Bernard Goldberg's

Bernard Goldberg

Bernard Richard Goldberg , also known as Bernie Goldberg, is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning American writer, journalist, and political commentator...

 book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News.

Awards

During his career Engberg received several awards for his reporting, including 1998 Investigative Reporters and Editors

Investigative Reporters and Editors

Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that focuses on the quality of investigative reporting. Formed in 1975, it presents the IRE Awards and holds conferences and training classes for journalists. Its headquarters is in Columbia, Missouri, at the University of...

 award, and Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award silver baton award.

External links

• Eric Engberg website
• IMDB, Eric Engberg
• "Blogging As Typing, Not Journalism", CBS News, Dick Meyer, November 8, 2004
• "Outside Voices: Eric Engberg Calls For A Time Out On Anonymous Sources", CBS News, Vaughn Ververs, November 11, 2005
• "48 Hours with "48 Hours"", Entertainment Weekly, Tim Appelo, March 23, 1990