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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The motives that move Columnist Walter Winchell’s wormlike thrusts are mysterious to the average man—but not so mysterious to those who feel the pressure of his vermiform “journalism.” Of late weeks, ...

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 ...

Columnist Walter Winchell had been a mainstay on the early years of ABC television with a simulcast of his 15-minute weekly time radio show until he left ABC in 1955 in a dispute with executives. The ...