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.
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.
Tim Metz, who joined Hill & Knowlton in 1989 after a 23-year career at the Wall Street Journal died Aug. 15. He was 86.
Bill Murray, who had been with MikeWorldWide for 35 years (most recently as EVP/national director, public affairs), has passed away at 67 after a battle with cancer.
Peter Costiglio, a top corporate communications executive for more than 40 years, died March 17 after a long-battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. He was 76.
