# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-hewitt
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:43:54.449Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-hewitt"
name: "Don Hewitt"
slug: "don-hewitt"
description: "Donald Shepard Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating the CBS television news magazine 60 Minutes in 1968, which, at the time of his death was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television. Under Hewitt's leadership, 60 Minutes was the only news program ever rated as the nation's top-ranked television program, which it accomplished five times. Hewitt produced the first televised presidential debate in 1960."
tagline: "American television news producer (1922–2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Don_Hewitt_circa_1979.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1922-12-14"
deathDate: "2009-08-19"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.27
  momentum:             10
  historical:           13.900204
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382026/"
    handle:    "nm0382026"
sources:
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    title: "Дон Г'юїтт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Hewitt"
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    title: "Donald Hewitt (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hewitt"
    title: "Don Hewitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hewitt"
    title: "Don Hewitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Hewitt"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Don Hewitt"
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    title: "Don Hewitt"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Hewitt"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q561963"
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    title: "Don Hewitt"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump