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Don Hewitt

Don S. Hewitt (born Donald Hewitt, December 14, 1922) is an American

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television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes
60 Minutes

or 60 Minutes 60 Minutes is an United States investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968....
, the CBS

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news magazine in 1968, currently the longest-running prime time broadcast on American television.

ttended New Rochelle High School in New York, and wrote for the school newspaper.

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Don S. Hewitt (born Donald Hewitt, December 14, 1922) is an American

United States

CBS

Biography

Early Life, education, and career

He attended New Rochelle High School in New York, and wrote for the school newspaper. Hewitt attended New York University

New York University

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and started his journalism

Journalism

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career in 1942 as head copyboy for the New York Herald Tribune
New York Herald Tribune

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.

CBS News

He started at CBS News in 1948 and served as producer-director of the network's evening news broadcast for 14 years. He was also the first director of the landmark documentary news program See It Now
See It Now

See It Now was a television newsmagazine and Television documentary broadcast by CBS in the 1950s. It was created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W....
, coproduced by host Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow

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and Fred W. Friendly

Fred W. Friendly

Fred W. Friendly was the former president of CBS and the creator, with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now....
. In 1960 Hewitt was the director of the Presidential debates

United States presidential election debates

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between Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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and John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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. Hewitt later became executive producer of the CBS Evening News
CBS Evening News

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with Walter Cronkite
Walter Cronkite

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. He then began the 8-time Emmy winning show 60 Minutes

60 Minutes

or 60 Minutes 60 Minutes is an United States investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968....
Hewitt was a familiar face in the infamous tobacco industry scandal involving Brown and Williamson and 60 Minutes
60 Minutes

or 60 Minutes 60 Minutes is an United States investigative television newsmagazine on United States television, which has run on CBS News since 1968....
. He was portrayed in the film The Insider
The Insider (film)

The Insider is a 1999 in film that tells the true story of a 60 Minutes television series expos? of the tobacco industry, as seen through the eyes of a real tobacco executive, Jeffrey Wigand....
by actor Philip Baker Hall

Philip Baker Hall

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.

Stepping down from 60 Minutes

Hewitt stepped aside as executive producer in 2004 at 81. He is an eight-time Emmy Award winner. Hewitt is the author of Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television, in which he chronicles his life as a newsman. He is also the author of the book Minute by Minute, a look at the history of 60 Minutes. On April 3, 2008, Hewitt was honored with Washington State University's Edward R. Murrow Award

Edward R. Murrow Award (WSU)

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for Lifetime Achievement in Broadcast Journalism.

Bibliography

Hewitt, Don (2001). Tell Me a Story: 50 Years and 60 Minutes in Television. Cambridge, MA: Public Affairs Press.