Sadly Tim Russert, 58, host of Meet the Press has passed away after suffering an apparent heart attack while doing voice overs for this Sunday’s program. The New York Post stated that Tim collapsed at NBC’s Washington news bureau, where he served as bureau chief..
Russert had reportedly just returned from Italy where his family was celebrating the Boston College graduation of one of their sons.
Russert, a native of Buffalo, New York, started out as the former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo’s press secretary and also worked with the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
Tim joined Meet the Press in 1991, when he made the leap to a political journalist. Time Magazine named Russert one of the world’s most influential people in 2008.
Russert wrote two books — “Big Russ and Me” in 2004 and “Wisdom of Our Fathers” in 2006 — both of which were New York Times best-sellers.
In 2005, Russert was awarded an Emmy for his role in the coverage of the funeral of President Ronald Reagan. His “Meet the Press” interviews with George W. Bush and Al Gore in 2000 won the Radio and Television Correspondents’ highest honor, the Joan S. Barone Award, and the Annenberg Center’s Walter Cronkite Award.
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