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CBS Radio’s Glenn Dead At 68
 Veteran CBS News correspondent and anchor Christopher Glenn has died of liver cancer at 68. Glenn was the anchor of CBS Radio’s flagship newscast, “The World News Roundup” and was perhaps best known as host of the Emmy award-winning "In the News," which was specially-written for younger viewers and ran during CBS TV’s Saturday morning cartoons.
Glenn was a CBS News correspondent for 35 years and his assignments included anchoring CBS Radio’s coverage of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion.
“CBS Evening News” anchor Katie Couric remembered Glenn, saying: “When I first moved to New York, I toiled as a writer in CBS News Radio. In those days, the place was a forest of redwoods, with towering giants like Douglas Edwards, Reid Collins, Charles Osgood, and Christopher Glenn. One of my earliest memories of news is the voice of Christopher Glenn, summarizing the week's events on the Saturday morning TV show ‘In the News.’ He had a voice that mingled cognac and cigarette smoke, and both Chris and that famous voice seemed ageless. More than that voice, he had a gift for words, and a way of weaving a story that made it real and immediate. He ventured into television a few times, but he always returned to radio. It was where he belonged, in the ‘theater of the mind.’"
Glenn had retired from CBS earlier this year.
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