Ed Joyce (journalist)
American television executive (1932–2014)
Edward Matthew Joyce (December 13, 1932 – August 2, 2014) was a former television executive. He was president of CBS News. He lived for many years in California's Santa Ynez Valley and in Redding, Connecticut.
Biography
Early life
Born in Phoenix, Arizona during the Depression, Ed Joyce’s father was a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps (an unemployment combatant during the FDR administration), making travel commonplace (think cardboard boxes, second hand at that, a precious commodity during the Depression) for the Joyce family. They moved throughout the Southwest where Ed’s father would trade advertisement in his magazine (as a side job [actually his only job]), The Last Frontier, for tangible goods. This was Ed’s first exposure to the world of media. He would later attend the University of Wyoming and work at small radio station as a janitor/DJ. From his media debut in small-time radio, he moved to television in Utica and Schenectady, New York.
CBS Radio and CBS News
He then hooked up with CBS Radio, first in Chicago and later in New York, where he was given a daily discussion program called “The Talk of New York” and the opportunity to interview such individuals as civil rights activist Malcolm X and sports legend Jackie Robinson. His success with the radio station and program was only the initial step in his corporate climb. First, he earned a position as an executive producer for the CBS News radio network, then a news director for a television station in New York, third, a Vice President of the news for all five stations in New York, then the general manager for stations in Chicago, including WBBM-TV, where he was well known for his decisive management style, so much so that some disgruntled employees referred to him as the "velvet shiv".
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