Chicago Anchorman Bill Kurtis on His New Book ‘Whirlwind’ and Journalism’s Crisis Moment

Chicago anchorman Bill Kurtis on his new book ‘Whirlwind’ and journalism’s crisis moment

Bill Kurtis was a mainstay of Chicago’s television news landscape for decades, appearing at the anchor desk alongside Walter Jacobson on WBBM and nationally with Diane Sawyer on CBS Morning News.As a broadcast journalist, he covered some of the 20th century's most gruesome murder cases, from Charles Manson to Richard Speck, and broke landmark reporting on the use of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. More recently, he has lent his signature de…

Bill Kurtis of ‘Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!’ got his start as a Kansas news reporter

NPR fans will recognize Bill Kurtis from the weekend game show \“Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!\” But his nearly six-decade career in journalism launched in Topeka, Kansas, when he warned viewers about an incoming tornado.