’60 Minutes’ Reporter Bob Simon Dies

Bob Simon, the longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent and legendary CBS News foreign reporter died suddenly tonight in a car accident in New York City.

The award-winning newsman was 73.

“It’s a terrible loss for all of us at CBS News,” 60 Minutes Executive Producer Jeff Fager said in a statement. “It is such a tragedy made worse because we lost him in a car accident, a man who has escaped more difficult situations than almost any journalist in modern times.

“Bob was a reporter’s reporter. He was driven by a natural curiosity that took him all over the world covering every kind of story imaginable,” Fager said. “There is no one else like Bob Simon. All of us at CBS News and particularly at 60 Minutes will miss him very much.”

Simon’s five-decade career took him through most major overseas conflicts spanning from the late 1960s to the present.

The newtork broke into programming to report the news this evening:

Simon was one of the most revered and admired old-school television journos, whose early reporting took him from the campus unrest of the Vietnam era to the war zone itself. He was as adept as a reporter from the battlefield as he was an investigative journalist for 60 Minutes.

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* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.