2008 Murrow award-winner founded ’60 Minutes’


Don Hewitt

Don Hewitt, who received WSU’s Edward R. Murrow award in 2008 and who changed the course of broadcast news by creating the television magazine “60 Minutes,” died Wednesday at his home in Bridgehampton, N.Y. He was 86.

 
Named for the WSU’s illustrious graduate, the Edward R. Murrow Award for Lifetime Achievement in Communication acknowledges exceptional achievement. Murrow was a 1930 graduate of Washington State College, now WSU.
 
Read Hewitt’s New York Times obituary here.
 
Read an article from CBS News here.
 
Read an article from Washington State magazine here.

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