Don Hewitt #1

Don Hewitt CBS Executive Producer; "60 Minutes."

This interview took place in the spring of 2001 in the WOUB studios of Ohio University. Hewitt passed away August 19, 2009.

"More than 50 years after joining CBS News, Don Hewitt continues to influence television journalism, much as he did when he helped invent many of its methods for reporting news, beginning in 1948. His pioneering work in producing and directing many of the broadcasts of the world's major news events during television's infancy provided a blueprint news producers still rely on today. But Hewitt is best known and most respected for another innovation, "60 Minutes," the groundbreaking news magazine he created in 1968."

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