David Michael Culhane (September 22, 1930 – February 24, 2024) was an American journalist and television news correspondent. He worked in radio, print, and television, with time at the Baltimore Sun, CBS News, and NPR.

Culhane was born in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Detroit, Michigan.

Culhane was the London Bureau Chief of the Baltimore Sun and host of the BBC's International Magazine[1] before joining CBS News in 1967.[2] In May 1968, Culhane reported with Charles Kuralt on malnutrition in the Peabody Award-winning documentary CBS New Reports: Hunger in America.[3] Senator George McGovern noted that seeing the program prompted him to introduce the resolution that would create the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs.[4] Culhane contributed to other CBS documentaries, including CBS Inquiry: The American Assassins[5] with Dan Rather and he was the reporter who unveiled the depths of the Payola corruption at CBS Records in the hour-long piece, The Trouble with Rock,[6][7] covering the scandal that had resulted in Clive Davis's firing from CBS Records.[8]

Throughout his time at the network, Culhane reported for the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and later Dan Rather. His work spanned the globe, with reports on the U.S. military's Operation Phoenix[9] in Vietnam[10] and student protests in Beijing's Tienanmen Square.[11] In 1979, Culhane joined Kuralt and others, launching the program CBS News Sunday Morning.[12][13] His cover stories[14] included an Emmy-winning piece about Vietnam veterans, "After the Parades,"[15] profiles on artists,[16] poverty in the South Bronx,[17] whale conservationists,[18] and presidential candidates.[19][20] Culhane retired from CBS News in 1995 and moved to Paris where he reported for NPR.[21][22]

He died on February 24, 2024, at his home in New York, at 93 years old.[23]

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  1. ^ "American Archive of Public Broadcasting".
  2. ^ Sun, Baltimore (1995-09-15). "Evening Sun alumni: Where they are now?". Baltimore Sun. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  3. ^ "Hunger In America: The 1968 CBS documentary that shocked America - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  4. ^ Oppenheimer, Gerald M.; Benrubi, I. Daniel (January 2014). "McGovern's Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs Versus the: Meat Industry on the Diet-Heart Question (1976–1977)". American Journal of Public Health. 104 (1): 59–69. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2013.301464. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 3910043. PMID 24228658.
  5. ^ "The American Assassins | Dan Rather". danratherjournalist.org. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  6. ^ Trouble With Rock - Payola 1974, 6 June 2021, retrieved 2024-03-26
  7. ^ Lichtenstein, Grace (1974-08-10). "CBS News Tells of Payola on Records". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  8. ^ Fong-Torres, Ben (1973-07-05). "Clive Davis Ousted from Columbia; Payola Coverup Charged". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  9. ^ "CBS Evening News [2-17-1970], at 15:25", David Culhane on Operation Phoenix, Saigon, Vietnam, retrieved 2024-03-04
  10. ^ Hammond, William M. (1995). Public Affairs: The Military and the Media, 1968-1973. Government Printing Office. ISBN 978-0-16-087300-3.
  11. ^ From the archives: 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre covered by CBS News, 5 June 2023, retrieved 2024-03-04
  12. ^ "Passage: Iris Apfel, Richard Lewis and David Culhane - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  13. ^ O'Leary, Noreen (1992-07-05). "The Unlikely Heroizing of Charles Kuralt". The New York Times. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  14. ^ "ArchiveGrid -- (david culhane) AND person_sort:"Culhane, David"". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  15. ^ "The Annual Fifth Estate Awards Issue" (PDF). Broadcast magazine. 1985-07-01. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
  16. ^ Watch Sunday Morning: From 1980: Jacques d'Amboise on teaching dance to children - Full show on CBS, 2024-03-03, retrieved 2024-03-04
  17. ^ 1981 SPECIAL REPORT: "SOUTH BRONX", 21 May 2019, retrieved 2024-03-04
  18. ^ From the "Sunday Morning" archives: Saving whales, Manolo Blahnik, and other classic July stories, 17 July 2023, retrieved 2024-03-04
  19. ^ "Portrait and interview / David Culhane, interviewer". researchworks.oclc.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  20. ^ Muskie, Edmund (1971-09-23). "SC0273 - Interview with David Culhane - Muskie speaks on black vice presidential candidate statement, U.S. racial problems, 1972 campaign". Audio Files.
  21. ^ Culhane, David (August 19, 1996). "Algeria Massacre". All Things Considered, NPR.
  22. ^ Presidential Candidates #246296, CBS Evening News for Thursday, May 06, 1976, Vanderbilt News Archive
  23. ^ "Passage: Iris Apfel, Richard Lewis and David Culhane - CBS News". www.cbsnews.com. Retrieved 2024-03-04.