Walter Cornkite began his journalism career as a correspondent at the Houston Post, where he worked part time in high school and as a freshman in college. At the University of Texas, Cronkite joined the Chi Phi fraternity and ran for freshman class president. He lost to his high school friend Joe Greenhill, who was later Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. In addition to that he also worked as a sports announcer for a local radio station in Oklahoma City the United Press in 1937, where he remained for eleven years. As a correspondent for the United Press Walter Cronkite covered the World War II, landing with the invading Allied troops in North Africa, covering the battle of the North Atlantic in 1942. Mr. Cronkite also took part in the Normandy Beachhead assaults in 1944, the airborne landing in Holland.

In July 1950, Walter Cronkite joined CBS News in Washington as a correspondent. He was the anchorman for the CBS political convention and election coverage from 1952 to 1980. Following his departure from CBS Evening news, Mr. Cronkite was the correspondent of CBS reports’ Children of Apartheid, which won an Emmy of Outstanding Achievement in a Documentary and the overseas Press Club Edward R. Murrow award for Outstanding Documentary.

Along with the accomplishments of Walter Cronkite, ha was an avid sailor of his 60-foot yacht, the Wyntje. He recorded his experiences sailing Chesapeake Bay to Key West in his book South by Southeast , and the Northeast coast in, Northeast by Northeast and later, in Westwind. He shared his sailing tour or America’s westcoast. Walter Cronkite also wrote a book called, Eye on the World.

In addition to his ongoing assignments as a Special Correspondent for CBS, Mr. Cronkite hosts many public affairs and cultural programs for PBS and syndication. In 1993 he co-founded The Cronkite Ward Company, a documentary production company which has produced more that 25 award-winning documentary hours for the Discovery Channel, PBS and other networks. The public’s perception of him as a honest, objective and level-headed led to his popular title as "the most trusted man in America." His nightly sign off, "and that’s the way it is," was his trademark. His voice enthusiastically narrated the U.S. manned space program and was one of the relative reason during the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

Cronkite himself became involved in a scandal in 1976 when newsman Sam jaffe reported seeing his name on an alleged White House list of journalists who had worked for the CIA. In an angry confrontation with the CIA director George Bush on February 4, Walter Cronkite demanded that he disclose which news people had actually beem CIA agents. Bush refused. A week later, the CBS Evening News reported that at least two former correspondents for CBS had secretly worked for the spy agency.

In an interview with Walter Cronkite, he was asked, What do you tell the young, the young journalist who sort of look towards network television as a place to practice? Cronkite answers," Oh, what do you tell the young journalist who wants to go to the newspaper where the newspapers have been venal from time to time. Some papers have, some papers haven’t. More have. I think the haven’t. Advertising’s always been a considerable pressure on publishers. Advertising revenue has to be maintained for them to stay in business. They make compromises. I would tell them, the young people what I have told them all along about being in the news business as journalists. There will be these pressures. This is part of, part of the business. We, as journalists, have to be strong and try to maintain what we believe to be the principles of the craft. Then if we are a profession at all it’s because we have ethics. And I think that most of the time, most of the journalists adhere to them. There will always be fights with publishers and fights with broadcast executives over the commercial interests versus the public responsibility"