Repository: Archives & Special Collections, Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library of Medgar Evers College, CUNY
Location: CEIML ASPC, Suite 0108
Identifier: RNM
Collection Title: CBS Radio Network Collection
Name of Creator(s): Elizabeth Dribben, 1937-2011
Inclusive Dates:
Language(s): English
Quantity: 7 linear feet

SCOPE AND CONTENT
This collection contains materials for actual news stories that were aired on CBS Radio Network.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
This collection is from the estate of Elizabeth Dribben. She was a longtime writer and producer for CBS News (network level) in NYC. Professor Dribben taught radio courses at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism after retiring from CBS. She collected materials she used while she was a producer for the late Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes fame. What she has bequeathed to MEC is a collection of actual news stories that were aired on CBS Network radio. (Mike Wallace was originally a radio reporter.) Some of those stories may also have been used for television.
The wise professor can immediately see how each story was researched, organized, written and edited into the final script that was used on the air. Ms. Dribben specifically collected these materials to be used by future reporters in a classroom setting. They confirm to the essential genres a journalist must know – investigative, feature, political, social, and so on. She wanted MEC to have them because she knew a minority institution would be much less likely to have access to materials such as this.
(Nancy Lewis-Thomas)

INDEX TERMS
Individual names
Dribben, Liz (Elizabeth), 1937-2011
Wallace, Mike (Myron Leon), 1918-2012

Institutions
CBS Radio Network (CBS News Radio, formerly known as CBS Radio News).

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Acquisition Information: This collection was donated to the Archives of the Charles Evans Inniss Memorial Library, Medgar Evers College, CUNY in 2015 by Ms. Nancy Lewis-Thompson.
Processing Information: Finding aid, collection arrangement, and processing were completed by Yelena Novitskaya, Archives and Special Collections librarian, in 2016.
Conditions of Access and Use: Access to the collection is unrestricted. It is available for research purposes. Duplication of the collection may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.
Physical Access: Appointment is required for access.

COLLECTION ARRANGEMENT

COLLECTION INVENTORY AND DESCRIPTION