Burton Richard Benjamin was a vice president and director of CBS News.
18 Facts About Burton Benjamin
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Burton Benjamin worked at CBS for 29 years, as a writer, producer, and executive.
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Burton Benjamin was a senior executive producer from 1968 to 1975 and from 1981 to 1985.
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Burton Benjamin wrote Fair Play: CBS, General Westmoreland, and How a Television Documentary Went Wrong about the Benjamin Report, his report on The Uncounted Enemy and its related lawsuit.
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Burton Benjamin was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Sam and Ruth Bernstein Benjamin.
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In 1939, Burton earned a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Michigan.
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In 1939, Burton Benjamin worked for United Press and the Newspaper Enterprise Association in Cleveland and New York City until 1946.
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Subsequently, Burton Benjamin began writing and producing documentaries for RKO-Pathe, from 1946 to 1955.
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Burton Benjamin joined CBS in 1957 and became executive producer of The Twentieth Century that year, followed by The 21st Century in 1967.
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Burton Benjamin served as executive producer for CBS programs World War II, The Rockefellers, and CBS Reports.
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Burton Benjamin was executive producer of CBS Evening News from 1975 to 1978.
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Burton Benjamin subsequently served as vice president, director of news, and supervisor of development of CBS Sunday Morning from 1978 to 1981.
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At times during his career, Burton Benjamin taught at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, as well as at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York.
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Burton Benjamin served on the board of trustees of the Scarborough School, a private school near his home.
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Burton Benjamin's work earned him eight Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, two Ohio State University Awards, and the American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award.
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Burton Benjamin was later offered to become president of CBS, however he declined.
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Burton Benjamin became a senior fellow of Columbia University's Gannett Center for Media Studies in 1986.
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On September 19,1988, Burton Benjamin died of a brain tumor at his home in Scarborough, New York.