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Don Hewitt and Diane Sawyer of CBS's 60 Minutes sit at a control panel with monitors showing broadcast footage in a television studio, New York City, 1987. Portrait of Don Hewitt smiling, wearing a checked suit jacket, white shirt, and patterned tie, against a plain background.
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Don Hewitt and Diane Sawyer of CBS's 60 Minutes sit at a control panel with monitors showing broadcast footage in a television studio, New York City, 1987.
The creator and the correspondent Don Hewitt, the creator of 60 Minutes, discussing a segment with correspondent Diane Sawyer, who was the show's first full-time woman correspondent.

Don Hewitt

American television producer
Also known as: Donald Shepard Hewitt
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Tracy Grant is a senior editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica. She previously served as editor in chief, the first woman to hold that title. 
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Don Hewitt was a pioneering American television producer whose creativity helped revolutionize television news. His seminal achievement was creating 60 Minutes, one of the most successful and influential news shows in history. Hewitt wondered if he could attract a mass audience for a show that “packaged reality as attractively as Hollywood packages fiction.” Don Hewitt: A life A lifelong New Yorker, Donald Shepard Hewitt was born in the city in 1922. He attended New York University...

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