Emmy Award-Winning Television Journalist, Commentator. A Los Angeles native, he majored in English at UCLA and began his journalism career as a reporter for the Minneapolis Times and as a correspondent for the Associated Press. In 1950 he returned to L.A. as a reporter for CBS radio station KNX, and apart from a spell in the early 1960s called that network home for the rest of his life. He moved into television in 1953, reporting and anchoring for the local Channel 2 News. Among the notable stories he covered was the 1955 execution of Barbara Graham, and he moderated Richard Nixon's press conference following his defeat in the 1962 California governor's race, at which the future President famously declared, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore". From 1963 to 1972 he was the Los Angeles correspondent for the CBS Evening News, occasionally filling in for Walter Cronkite, before settling at L.A.'s KNXT-TV (now KCBS) as an anchor. In 1978 he reinvented himself as a first-class commentator with his daily segment "Bill Stout's Perspective", tackling a wide variety of topics with curmudgeonly common sense and no political axes to grind. A popular feature was his "Turkey of the Month Awards", doled out to public figures of all stripes for egregious conduct. He won Emmys for Best News Commentary in 1984 and 1985 and was given the Television Academy's Governors Award in 1986. The following year Stout suffered a heart attack from which he never fully recovered, but he returned to his news desk six months later and continued to work until the day before his death. Dan Rather said of him, "He was a pioneer in the modern era of broadcast news, a pathfinder and standard-setter, whose best-known badge was his integrity". This integrity did not always sit well with his employers. The tough, balding, gravel-voiced Stout was known as an old school newsman who often grumbled about how the networks were allowing commercial considerations to dumb down TV journalism. He rejected all attempts to "glamorize" his rumpled on-air image and clashed frequently with his bosses, who sent him packing on more than one occasion. (It was one such dismissal in 1960 that brought iconic anchor Jerry Dunphy to Los Angeles as his replacement). Ironically, perhaps, Stout was also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and appeared in a dozen features and TV movies, including "I Want to Live!" (playing himself, 1958), "The Ugly American" (1963), "The Best Man" (1964), "The Candidate" (1973), "Sunshine" (1973), and "The Phantom of Hollywood" (1974). He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1500 Vine Street, within sight of the former CBS Columbia Square studio where he had broadcast for four decades. The Bill Stout Memorial Awards, presented by the Associated Press Television-Radio Association of California and Nevada, are named in his honor.