Ernest Leiser was an American executive producer of The CBS Evening News.
15 Facts About Ernest Leiser
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Ernest Leiser was recognized with Emmy and Peabody awards for coverage of post-war Europe, civil rights, and Vietnam.
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Ernest Leiser was in charge of transitioning CBS News from radio to primarily television.
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Ernest Leiser joined CBS in July 1953 as a writer in the Public Affairs department in New York.
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Ernest Leiser was recognized with a Peabody award for his coverage and courage for taking risk of "life and limb" during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
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Ernest Leiser was the first to get film out of the country.
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Ernest Leiser's coverage resulted in him sharing a Peabody Award for CBS.
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In 1961, Leiser was replaced as bureau chief in Bonn by Daniel Schorr and became assistant general manager of CBS News for television.
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Ernest Leiser was an important part of CBS's coverage of the space program, political campaigns, conventions, and elections of national significance, civil rights and Vietnam.
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Ernest Leiser won Emmy Awards in three consecutive years for.
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Ernest Leiser was instrumental in Dan Rather being hired and developed as a CBS reporter.
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Harry Reasoner left CBS for ABC in 1970, and Ernest Leiser joined him in 1972 as executive producer of Reasoner's weekly news magazine, The Reasoner Report, which premiered early the following year.
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Ernest Leiser decried the thinning out of the reporting ranks, the closing down of foreign bureaus, and the lack of prime-time documentaries.
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Ernest Leiser taught journalism as a senior fellow at the Gannett Institute at Columbia.
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Ernest Leiser died November 26,2002, at his home in South Nyack, New York.