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Don Hewitt. Donald Shepard Hewitt[ 1] (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. [ 2]
Sep 11, 2017 · October 2017 Issue. How Don Hewitt Invented 60 Minutes and Changed Journalism Forever. In his new book Fifty Years of 60 Minutes, Jeff Fager reports on the rise of CBS’s flagship newsmagazine...
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60 Minutes is an American television news magazine broadcast on the CBS television network. Debuting in 1968, the program was created by Don Hewitt and Bill Leonard, who distinguished it from other news programs by using a unique style of reporter-centered investigation.
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 much...
Nov 12, 1985 · "Minute by Minute" is the fabulous story of "60 Minutes," on screen and behind the scenes, as only Don Hewitt, its creator and executive producer, can tell it. In "Minute by Minute," the most important and revealing book yet on TV and TV news, Hewitt brings the entire story to life.
- Don Hewitt
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- Don Hewitt
Aug 20, 2009 · A documentary about Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the American commander in Vietnam, was produced in 1982 by George Crile for “CBS Reports;” it was not the work of Mr. Hewitt or “60...
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Aug 19, 2009 · It was a revolution in television programming created by veteran newsman Don Hewitt (1922 – 2009). 60 MINUTES was the first news program to break into the Neilsen’s Top ten, and has been...
