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Donald Shepard Hewitt (December 14, 1922 – August 19, 2009) was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which at the time of his death was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television.
Aug 20, 2009 · Don Hewitt, who changed the course of broadcast news by creating the television magazine “60 Minutes,” fusing journalism and show business as never before, and who then presided over that...
Aug 19, 2009 · Don Hewitt, recognized as a father of modern television news and the creator of the medium's most successful broadcast, 60 Minutes, died of pancreatic cancer Wednesday. He was 86 and had homes in...
Aug 21, 2009 · Don Hewitt, who died on Wed. at age 86, didn't invent the TV newsmagazine, but he sure invented the most successful and durable one. He created 60 Minute s in 1968 — 41 years ago — and, like...
Aug 19, 2009 · Don Hewitt, the voluble CBS News executive producer who was the creative force behind 60 Minutes, died Wednesday morning of pancreatic cancer at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. He was 86....
Aug 19, 2009 · From 1943 to 1945 Hewitt was a war correspondent in both the European and Pacific theaters. After the war, he worked as an editor for the Associated Press’ Memphis bureau, and remained in ...
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Aug 19, 2009 · A look at the life and career of the pioneering television journalist best known as the creator of "60 Minutes." Don Hewitt is born in New York City. Hewitt begins his journalism career...
