Mitchell Krauss

Mitchell Krauss was an American journalist.

Krauss began his career in news broadcasting in the 1950s on local radio in New York at WQXR, and then in Philadelphia at WFLN and WIP.

Krauss joined CBS News from Channel 13, the PBS station in New York, where he was a news correspondent and the host of the late-evening Newsfront, America’s first non-commercial, live daily news program, syndicated on several PBS stations.

He served as a CBS news correspondent on television and radio from 1972 to 1997. His Middle East assignments included Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Israel, and Cairo, where, on October 6, 1981, he was covering a military parade and sustained a shrapnel wound to his leg in the attack that killed Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. He later covered the trials of the religious extremists who killed Sadat and the subsequent administration of the new President, Hosni Mubarak.

His television reports appeared regularly on the CBS Evening News, anchored by Walter Cronkite, and in the 1980s when the broadcast was helmed by Dan Rather.

In the 1990s, Krauss appeared mostly on radio, anchoring hourly national news reports and the daily CBS World News Roundup. His live news anchoring on the radio included coverage of the 1986 explosion of the Challenger Space Shuttle and the 1991 hearings of Anita Hill.

In retirement, Krauss gave lectures on the role of media in society, world affairs, and the history of broadcasting.

Krauss died January 27, 2021, in Rhinebeck, New York. He was 90.