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NBC's 'Meet The Press' Host Tim Russert Dead At 58

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Jun 13, 2008 12:45 pm US/Pacific

NBC's 'Meet The Press' Host Tim Russert Dead At 58

NEW YORK (CBS) ― Tim Russert, NBC Washington Bureau Chief and the moderator of "Meet The Press," is dead. He was 58 years old.

He collapsed at work at the NBC News bureau in Washington, D.C.

NBC colleague Tom Brokaw called Russert a "beloved colleague" and "one of the premier journalists of our time."

Russert was born in Buffalo, N.Y. on May 7, 1950. Russert leaves a wife, writer Maureen Orth, and a son, Luke.

According to the MSNBC biography on Russert, he was the Managing Editor and Moderator of "Meet the Press" and political analyst for "NBC Nightly News" and the "TODAY" program. He anchored "The Tim Russert Show," a weekly interview program on MSNBC. Russert also served as senior vice president and Washington bureau chief of NBC News.

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