Charles Osgood, CBS Host on TV and Radio and Network’s Poet-in-Residence, Dies at Age 91

Charles Osgood, CBS Host on TV and Radio and Network’s Poet-in-Residence, Dies at Age 91
Charles Osgood, anchor of CBS's "Sunday Morning," poses for a portrait on the set in New York on March 28, 1999. Suzanne Plunkett/AP Photo
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NEW YORK—Charles Osgood, a five-time Emmy Award-winning journalist who anchored “CBS Sunday Morning” for more than two decades, hosted the long-running radio program “The Osgood File” and was referred to as CBS News’ poet-in-residence, has died. He was 91.

CBS reported that Osgood died Tuesday at his home in Saddle River, New Jersey, and that the cause was dementia, according to his family.