- Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank (
7 December 1920 –4 February 2006 ) was an American broadcast news pioneer.Born in
Montreal ,Quebec , Reuven Frank earned a bachelor's degree atCity College of New York and a graduate degree injournalism fromColumbia University . He then worked a reporter at the "Newark Evening News " inNew Jersey .Frank was a key figure in bringing television news out of the shadow of radio news by emphasizing the importance of visuals in telling stories. His groundbreaking "
Huntley-Brinkley Report " teamed newscastersChet Huntley andDavid Brinkley . The national catchphrase "Good night, David" "Good night, Chet" was credited to Frank.Frank's documentaries included
Emmy Award -winning report "The Tunnel" (1962) about the escape of 59 Germans through a passage under theBerlin Wall . In the 1970s, he created and was executive producer of "Weekend", a news magazine hosted byLloyd Dobyns that originally aired one Saturday a month from 11:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. The program received a Peabody award.Linda Ellerbee later joined as co-host.Frank served two tenures as president of
NBC News , from 1968 to 1972 and from 1982 to 1984, and mentored such journalists asTom Brokaw ,John Chancellor ,Linda Ellerbee , andAndrea Mitchell .Quotes
*"Sunshine is a weather report, a flood is news." Frank to Floyd Abrams. [Abrams, Floyd. "Speaking Freely",
Viking Press (2005), p. 4.]
*The highest power of television journalism is not in the transmission of information but in the transmission of experience." [Epstein, Edward Jay, "News From Nowhere" (Vintage Books, 1974), p. 39.]Notes
*Collins, Scott. [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-frank7feb07,0,2858640.story "Reuven Frank, 85; NBC Producer Helped Launch 'Huntley-Brinkley' Show"] . "
Los Angeles Times ", (February 7, 2006)
*Steinberg, Jacques. "Reuven Frank, Producer Who Pioneered TV News Coverage at NBC, Is Dead at 85". "The New York Times ", (February 7, 2006)External links
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