Lew Irwin has been a Los Angeles-based journalist for more than 50 years. He was the original anchor/reporter at KABC-TV from 1957–1962 and the news director of Los Angeles radio stations KPOL, KRLA, KDAY, and KNX-FM. While at KRLA in the late 1960s, he created The Credibility Gap, a 15-minute news program, broadcast every three hours, that integrated topical satire and music with the news. He also has interviewed Presidents Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, as well as such show business personalities as The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Frank Sinatra, David Bowie, Peter Sellers, Jack Nicholson,

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. He is the author of ''Sinatra, a Life Remembered'', a

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about Frank Sinatra and since 1992 has been the publisher/editor of the daily entertainment industry digest Studio Briefing.

Career

Irwin owned a news production company that produced segments for several southern California radio stations. Then in 1968,

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hired him as their news director to form the Credibility Gap. Irwin's autobiographical website wrote:

While ... an undergraduate at USC, he ... host dNews Today, a nationally syndicated radio program. ... For the next fifteen years, Irwin ... anchored television news programs or directed the news operations of leading radio stations. ... In 1968, he produced and hosted The Credibility Gap on Los Angeles radio station
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, which integrated topical satire and music with the news. ... Following that, Irwin produced and hosted more than a half dozen syndicated radio series, including, from 1972-1985, Earth News Radio. ... He currently is the publisher/editor of Studio Briefing.

Discography

*1968 - ''An Album of Political Pornography'', with Lew Irwin and the Credibility Gap ( Blue Thumb)

Bibliography

*''Sinatra: A Life Remembered'', Courage Books, 1997. . *''Sinatra: The Pictorial Biography'', Courage Books, 1995. . *''Sinatra: A Life in Music'', Castle Communications, 1995. . *''Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times And America's Forgotten Decade of Terror.'' . .

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