NBC Producer Dies in NYC Building Fall
- From: Garondo Marondo <Classic.Mr.Hole@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:41:59 -0000
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NBC Producer, Brokaw Colleague Dies in Manhattan Building Plunge
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Emmy-winning television producer who worked
with Tom Brokaw at NBC News died Monday after falling from his
apartment building, police said.
Police initially reported that the producer, Eric R. Wishnie, was hit
by a vehicle that fled the scene, but later they said they had located
a witness who saw him as he fell from an adjacent building. The
medical examiner's office said it had scheduled an autopsy.
NBC News President Steve Capus said in a statement that Wishnie, 44,
was "an enormously talented former senior producer at NBC News, who
had a hand in some of the most monumental and memorable news stories
of our time."
Wishnie produced numerous stories for Brokaw in the Middle East, along
with coverage of the Olympic Games in Athens, Sydney and Atlanta and
the first North American interview with Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
He was found in the street in Greenwich Village at about 3 a.m.
Monday, and he died two hours later at a hospital, NBC said.
Tim Minton, a reporter for WNBC-TV, the local affiliate, quoted police
as saying they did not believe foul play was involved.
Wishnie was a former senior producer for "The NBC Nightly News with
Brian Williams." He had been a key producer for Brokaw, Williams'
predecessor as anchor of the evening news program, traveling with him
on such assignments as the war in Iraq and post-tsunami coverage in
Indonesia.
In 1993, while based in Chicago, Wishnie and NBC reporter Dawn
Fratangelo won Emmy awards for their coverage of Midwest floods. They
married in October 1997.
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