24 Facts About Gabe Pressman

Gabriel Stanley Pressman was an American journalist who was a reporter for WNBC-TV in New York City for more than 60 years.

Gabe Pressman's career spanned more than seven decades; the events he covered included the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956, the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr.

Gabe Pressman was one of the pioneers of United States television news and has been credited as the first reporter to have left the studio for on-the-scene "street reporting" at major events.

Gabe Pressman was dubbed the "Dean of New York Journalism"; his numerous awards include a Peabody and 11 Emmys, and he was considered a New York icon.

Gabe Pressman had a younger brother, Paul, who was a psychiatrist.

Gabe Pressman got his start in journalism early; as a young boy of 8 or 9, he made a newspaper for his family, with cheeky headlines such as "Grandma's Spongecake Made With Real Sponges".

Gabe Pressman attended New York University, majoring in History and Government, but his education was interrupted during World War II.

Gabe Pressman took part in the Philippines Campaign while serving as a communications officer aboard the submarine chaser USS PC-470 in the South Pacific.

Gabe Pressman was headed to the Polish Consulate Berlin when he was detained, but was released two hours later.

Gabe Pressman worked for various New York City newspapers after his return from Europe before becoming a reporter in 1954 for what then was NBC's radio station WNBC, and moved over to television in 1956.

Gabe Pressman spent the bulk of his broadcast career with NBC.

Since 1945, Gabe Pressman covered the lives of 10 New York City mayors, 10 New York State governors, 15 Senators from New York, and 13 United States Presidents.

Gabe Pressman, who described himself as "just a little Jewish guy from the Bronx", became a fixture of New York City.

Gabe Pressman pioneered street reporting as the first television journalist to do live and on-scene coverage of events.

Gabe Pressman was co-anchor of New York's first early-evening half-hour newscast, the Gabe Pressman-Ryan Report, born out of a devastating 1963 New York City-area newspaper strike.

Gabe Pressman covered the New York region for NBC News, WNBC-TV and WNBC-AM radio.

Gabe Pressman was a reporter for NBC News at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York in 1969.

Gabe Pressman has been credited with helping create the New York City institution known as the "perp walk," which was born in the 1970s when he clashed with famed District Attorney Robert Morgenthau over access to filming notable suspects after they had been arrested.

Gabe Pressman was a past president of the New York Press Club, from 1997 to 2000, and as head of that organization fought for the rights of New York's journalists, both print and electronic.

Up until the time of his death in June 2017, Gabe Pressman still worked part-time at WNBC, mostly as a blog writer about New York City news on the station's website, and he was active on Twitter.

Gabe Pressman was married to Emma Mae Kracht from 1953 until their divorce in 1967.

Gabe Pressman died at Mount Sinai Hospital Manhattan on June 23,2017, aged 93.

Gabe Pressman amassed many awards for his work, including multiple Emmys and a Peabody Award.

Gabe Pressman won many of those awards for his coverage of the plight of New York City's homeless population.