By Gary Strauss, USA TODAY
Don Hewitt will be best remembered for creating CBS' 60 Minutes, television's most successful newsmagazine. But long before the immediacy of the Internet, Hewitt's pioneering efforts in television's early days were pivotal in shaping the medium as a leading source for breaking-news coverage.
After joining CBS in the late 1940s, he directed TV's first network newscast and orchestrated TV's first presidential debate, the 1960 John F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon faceoff that observers say set the tone for image-driven politics.
Hewitt was instrumental in developing editing, camera and production techniques that remain in wide use today. Says CBS president Les Moonves: "Since the very beginnings of our business, he literally invented so many of the vehicles by which we now communicate the news."
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