Jim Lehrer, who teamed with Robert MacNeil in 1975 to launch “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” on PBS, died today. He was 85.
 Jim Lehrer |
The Wichita native worked at the Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald before moving to public station KERA-TV in the city.
In 1973, he shifted to PBS in Washington, where he covered the Watergate hearings with MacNeil.
The MacNeil/Lehrer Report evolved into “The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour” in 1983 after it becomes TV’s first hour-long news program.
Following the retirement of MacNeil in 1995, Lehrer hosted “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”
He stepped down from what is now called “PBS NewsHour” in 2011 and was succeeded by Judy Woodruff.
Lehrer, who was a Marine Corps. veteran moderated a dozen presidential debates.
Frank Ramos, who headed the PR department for the doomed-to-fail New York Jets for 39 years, died on Jan. 27. He was 87.
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Andy Stanton, who was director of finance at Stanton PR, died Nov. 12 in New York. He was 39.
Kassie Canter, a media and entertainment PR veteran, died October 24 in New York. She was 67.
Leo Pearlstein, the “king of culinary PR,” died on Sept. 10 in Los Angeles at the age of 104.
