Stuart Novins

Stuart Novins (March 30, 1914[1] – December 7, 1989) was an American television journalist. He was a CBS News correspondent for 35 years. Novins covered Fidel Castro's ascent to power in Cuba and later reported on the Bay of Pigs invasion. Novins from 1958 to 1961 was the CBS network's United Nations correspondent. In the 1960s as a Moscow correspondent, he covered the political collapse of Nikita Khrushchev. [2] He was the chief of the CBS News bureau in Moscow from 1962 to 1965. As the second moderator for Face the Nation, he interviewed national as well as international world leaders. In 1960, the year he left his position on Face the Nation, he served as a panelist at the first televised presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, which took place in Chicago at the studios of CBS-owned WBBM-TV. He retired from television in 1975 and joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico, where he taught broadcast journalism until 1981.

Stuart Novins with Eleanor Roosevelt and Margaret Chase Smith on Face the Nation in Washington, D.C. (1956)

Novins died of respiratory failure on December 7, 1989, in Middlebury, Vermont.[3]

References
  1. Birth date from Social Security Death Index.
  2. "Chicago Tribune". Chicago Tribune. December 10, 1989. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  3. "Stuart Novins Is Dead; TV Reporter Was 75". New York Times. 1989-12-09.
Preceded by
Bill Shadel		 Face the Nation Moderator
August 21, 1955 – November 6, 1960		 Succeeded by
Howard K. Smith


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