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

The Credibility Gap

The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team comprising Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander and Michael McKean. Lew Irwin, John Gilliland, Thom Beck, and Len Chandler also performed in their early days...

, 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, Dick Clark and Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley

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. He is the author of Sinatra, a Life Remembered, a coffee table book

Coffee table book

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 about Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

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

Studio Briefing

Studio Briefing is an entertainment industry newsletter edited and published by Lew Irwin. Studio Briefing began "as a fax-only subscription service in 1992, [and] went online the following year". It had previously been syndicated through the Newshare corp. It is currently available through the...

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Career

Irwin's autobiographical website wrote:

While … an undergraduate at USC

University of Southern California

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, he … host[ed] News 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

The Credibility Gap

The Credibility Gap was a satirical comedy team comprising Harry Shearer, Richard Beebe, David L. Lander and Michael McKean. Lew Irwin, John Gilliland, Thom Beck, and Len Chandler also performed in their early days...

 on Los Angeles radio station KRLA, 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

Studio Briefing

Studio Briefing is an entertainment industry newsletter edited and published by Lew Irwin. Studio Briefing began "as a fax-only subscription service in 1992, [and] went online the following year". It had previously been syndicated through the Newshare corp. It is currently available through the...

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Discography

• 1968 - An Album Of Political Pornography, with Lew Irwin and the Credibility Gap (Blue Thumb)