Spent most of career with CBS-TV, rising to president, CBS-TV News with
supervision over Dan Rather's newscasts and "60 Minutes." Depicted in
latter role in The Insider (1999) by Stephen Tobolowsky as character "Eric
Kluster."
Subsequent executive positions with Scripps-Howard TV Productions, The
Food Network, The Vault news website.
Graduated from Yale with B.A. in history.
Served as President of CBS TV Stations after a term as Director of News at WCAU-TV in Philadelphia, then of WCBS-TV in New York City. Became President of CBS network news.
Member of Journalism Advisory Board, Queens College of the City
University of New York; former member Board of Directors of the
Associated Press. Started his career in journalism at the World
Telegram and Sun.