Lew Irwin

{{short description|Los Angeles-based journalist}}

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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 to 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.{{cite web|last=Deming |first=Mark |url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p149|pure_url=yes}} |title=((( The Credibility Gap > Biography ))) |publisher=allmusic |accessdate=2010-01-08}} 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, Dick Clark{{cite web| url=https://findingaids.library.unt.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=959&q= | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090402023122/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/index-to-interviews | archivedate=2009-04-02 |title=A-D interview index |work=Pop Chronicles |publisher=University of North Texas Libraries}}{{cite web|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19761/m1/ |title=Show 12 - Big Rock Candy Mountain: Rock 'n' roll in the late fifties. [Part 2] : UNT Digital Library |publisher=Digital.library.unt.edu |accessdate=2010-09-02}} and Elvis Presley.{{cite web |url=http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s |title=O-S – University of North Texas Libraries |publisher=Library.unt.edu |date=2008-07-24 |accessdate=2010-01-08 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20110615153027/http://www.library.unt.edu/music/special-collections/john-gilliland/o-s |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-15 }}{{Gilliland |https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19754/m1/ |Show 7 - The All American Boy: Enter Elvis and the rock-a-billies. [Part 1]}} He is the author of Sinatra, a Life Remembered, a coffee table book about Frank Sinatra{{cite web|last=Irwin |first=Lew |url=http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/servlet/org.oclc.lac.ui.EditionsServlet?oclcnum=39454081 |title=Formats and Editions of Sinatra : a life remembered |publisher=Worldcat.org |accessdate=2010-01-08}} and since 1992 has been the publisher/editor of the daily entertainment industry digest Studio Briefing.{{cite web|url=http://www.studiobriefing.net |title=Film and TV Industry News |publisher=Studiobriefing.net |accessdate=2010-09-01}}