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Don Hewitt

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American television news producer (1922-2009)

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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.

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2008Edward R. Murrow Lifetime Achievement Award
1995International Emmy Founders Award
1992Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
1992Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
Peabody Awards
Emmy Award
Producers Guild of America Awards
Radio Television Digital News Association
Television Hall of Fame

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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.

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United States
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Journalists
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Journalist
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deceased
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Lived 1922 to 2009 · aged 86
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