Was the Voice of Children's News Show "In the News"

            Christopher Glenn, an award-winning CBS News radio and television correspondent best known as the voice of "In the News," the television news program for children in 1970s and '80s, died today. He was 68 and lived in Norwalk, Conn. He died in Norwalk Hospital of liver cancer.

            The CBS News veteran retired last February after 35 years with the company and was to be inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago on Nov. 4. He will enter the Hall posthumously.

          Glenn was a fixture at CBS since March 1971 when he started work as a radio producer for special events. His radio work won him many national awards, the latest was the Radio Television News Directors Edward R. Murrow award for Best Newscast (2005). Glenn's distinctive voice is familiar to millions who still remember hearing it on "In the News," the Emmy-award winning television series for children.  The two-and-half minute feature on one single news topic was broadcast every half hour during Saturday children's programming on CBS. It debuted in September 1971 and ran for 5,000 episodes over 13 seasons with Glenn as its reporter/narrator.

           "We're a little didactic, we try to teach in some way," Glenn said of the series in 1984.  He said a "a surprise bonus" was the fact that adults learned from it as well, who often told him that they really understood a news event for the first time after watching "In the News."

           He also worked on several other CBS News television broadcasts for young viewers in addition to "In the News." These include the award winning weekly magazine series   "30 Minutes," on which he served as co-editor for its five seasons (1978-1982). He was also anchor/reporter for several editions of "What's it All About?", an award-winning series of special broadcasts.

          Glenn  was named a CBS News Correspondent in 1976 and came back to his roots, radio, in January, 1984. He anchored and reported on many national stories including space shuttle missions and served as a floor reporter at national political conventions. He became the anchor for the CBS WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP in 1999 after spending 11 years in a similar capacity for "The World Tonight," which was later renamed CBS WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP-LATE EDITION. 

          It was a cold January morning in 1986 when Chris was anchoring CBS coverage of the launch of Challenger. Many will recall his anguished commentary as he witnessed the Challenger fireball, "...a great tragedy here. This flight, which was to have been such a bright chapter in the history of the manned space flight program, turning in the flash of an instant into a terrible, terrible tragedy."

          Glenn was a co-anchor/interviewer of "CBS News Night Watch," the late-night, four-hour news and information television program, from its inception in October 1982 until January 1984.

            Prior to CBS, Chris was managing editor of Metromedia News Network in Washington, 1970-71, and a reporter, editor and documentary producer with WNEW Radio in New York (1964-70). He also worked for WICC Radio, Bridgeport, Conn. (1963-64), Radio Press International in New York (1961-63), and Armed Forces Broadcasting in Korea and New York (1960-61).            

            Glenn  was born in New York City and raised in Irvington, N.Y. He received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1959.

           He is survived by his wife, Dianne; daughters Rebecca and Lindsey; and a sister, Patricia Rooney.

            In lieu of flowers, his wife requests donations be made to the Norwalk Hospital Intensive Care Unit.  A memorial service will be held at a future date.