Comments on: About http://www.newslab.org Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jeff gralnick http://www.newslab.org/about/comment-page-1/#comment-5380 jeff gralnick Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:30:30 +0000 http://www.newslab.org/blog/?page_id=2#comment-5380 AP story about passing of Bob Wussler misses a central part of his career and importance to what we call broadcast news now. He was CBS NEWs Producer of Special Events in the early 1960s. Produced space shot coverage from John Glenn to Apollo 17; election nights in the pre-projection days when coverage lasted into the following day as we and the nation waited to see who won; and convention coverage when it was, indeed, gavel-to-gavel. I had the good fortune to work for him and learn from him and be mentored by him before the word was fashionable. Too few in broadcast news today know the name or the debt owed to one of the early inventors of the forms we take for granted today. AP story about passing of Bob Wussler misses a central part of his career and importance to what we call broadcast news now.

He was CBS NEWs Producer of Special Events in the early 1960s. Produced space shot coverage from John Glenn to Apollo 17; election nights in the pre-projection days when coverage lasted into the following day as we and the nation waited to see who won; and convention coverage when it was, indeed, gavel-to-gavel.

I had the good fortune to work for him and learn from him and be mentored by him before the word was fashionable.

Too few in broadcast news today know the name or the debt owed to one of the early inventors of the forms we take for granted today.

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