WaPo:
Ed Bradley, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent and one of the pioneering black journalists of his generation, died today of leukemia. He was 65.
Bradley’s consummate skills as a broadcast journalist and his distinctive body of work have been recognized with numerous awards, including 19 Emmys, the latest for a segment that reported the reopening of the 50-year-old racial murder case of Emmett Till. He received three Emmys at the 2003 awards: a Lifetime Achievement Emmy; one for a 60 MINUTES report on brain cancer patients, “A New Lease on Life” (April 2002); and another for his hour on 60 MINUTES II about sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, “The Catholic Church on Trial” (June 2002).
I’ve grown up watching 60 Minutes with my mom, and is something I still do to this day. Bradley was a great reporter.
Bummer. He will be missed.
OMG, I didn’t even know he was sick. So young (given my baby boom era geezerness).
I just saw an interview(repeat?) he did on 60 Minutes recently.
He was such a good Vietnam era reporter too. Many of you younguns’ have missed those years. He was there, on the ground, then.
A very sad day, indeed.
He was one of the few major media people whose opinions and reporting I felt were trustworthy.
A classy guy. Smart, intuitive and curious. All of the things that are held in such low esteem today in the public arena.
He will be missed.
Man, I didn’t know he was sick, either. That’s sad. 65 is definitely way too young. Given that he worked for 60 minutes, he could’ve been on another 15 years, easy. What a shame.
I have a friend who just started an internship at CBS and the whole staff is crying.
I think he was a great example of what a journalist should be. I don’t ever recall him being shrill; he simply reported the story. We are so short of good journalists, and now we’ve lost one of the best.
I was shocked when I heard about while getting ready for work. I’m sad because I remember watching him while growing up and enjoyed his work. He will be missed.
As an interviewer he conveyed simple, gentle authority. Developed a good rapport with his subject, drew them out, and kept them on the story.