After writing the book, St. John switched to broadcast reporting for NBC Radio, moving in 1942 to head its London bureau. He covered the Blitz, the Nazi bombing of the city, for a year before returning to Washington, D.C., and then went New York City to broadcast general war news. His broadcast brought the Americans the news about D Day, on June 6, 1944, and he was the first to announce the end of the Second World War on August 12, 1945.Now the News: The Story of Broadcast Journalism by Edward Bliss Jr. (Columbia, 1992)
