RIP TIM RUSSERT
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Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press, has passed away from what appears to be a heart attack, reports the NY Post. He was 58.
Our thoughts are with his family.
UPDATE 1: Russert was in the tracking booth, recording a track, when he collapsed. He returned from Italy Thursday night, according to the New York Times.
Background:
Tim Russert, host of NBC’s “Meet the Press”and its Washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58.
Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the most widely watched program of its type in the nation. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning.
Washingtonian magazine once dubbed Russert the best journalist in town, and described “Meet the Press” as “the most interesting and important hour on television.
He also wrote best-selling books, “Big Russ and Me,” in 2004, and “Wisdom of our Fathers,” in 2006.This year, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Russert also was a senior vice president at NBC.
