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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorRichard C. Wald, a former president at NBC News and a senior vice president at ABC News who worked behind the scenes with Tom Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Ted Koppel and Roone Arledge, died May 13 after suffering a stroke earlier in the month. He was 92.Wald was involved with the creation of “Nightline,” the signature ABC News late-night program that grew out of special coverage in 1979 on the taking of U.S.
embassy staff in Tehran by Iranian militants. Wald gave the show, which devoted itself to a single topic each night under the aegis of Koppel and remains on the air at ABC in modernized form, its name, trying to create an analogue to the “morning line” at a race track. He also put Brokaw on NBC’s “Today,” and hired Pauley, while working to modernize the format of “NBC Nightly News.” His time in TV news, however, was preceded by a rich career in newspapers.
He was the Sunday editor of the short-lived World Journal Tribune, after a merger of the Herald Tribune, the World Telegram and the Journal American. After it ceased publication in 1977, Wald moved to television, first NBC and then ABC, in an era when television news was trying to match its print counterparts in prestige. Whenever he was asked why he had left newspapers, he replied, “I didn’t leave newspapers.
Newspapers left me.”The move to TV would prove prescient, and Wald saw where the format might go in the future. In March 1976, in an off-the-cuff speech at a convention of the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago, he predicted that TV news, then confined to half an hour a night, would become a 24-hour operation, and that it would be filled with talking heads and a proliferation of seeming experts. Wald also served as the
.Cannes Film Festival is making efforts to diversify beyond the cavalcade of many of the same male auteurs. Instead, there will be a record number of women directors in competition.Now the bad news.
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relating to hit-and-run incident that caused the death of Nicki Minaj’s father, Robert, in 2021.At a hearing last week (May 6), Charles Polevich pleaded guilty to one count of leaving the scene of an accident and another count of evidence tampering according to court records.In a statement to Billboard, Polevich’s attorney Marc Gann said his client was “extremely remorseful for any role he may have played in Mr. Maraj’s death.”He continued: “Mr. Polevich’s life story is one of helping others, which makes this case so out of character.
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The driver accused of killing Nicki Minaj’s father in a hit-and-run last year has pleaded guilty.
The driver who fatally struck Nicki Minaj‘s father has pled guilty in the February 2021 hit-and-run case.
Nicki Minaj's father has pled guilty in the February 2021 hit-and-run case.A spokesperson for the Nassau County Clerk's Office tells ET that 71-year-old Charles Polevich pled guilty on Friday to two felony counts of leaving the scene of a fatality and tampering with physical evidence. The judge in the case said Polevich will get no more than a year behind bars. He'll also get community service and have his license suspended.
NEW YORK -- A hit-and-run driver pleaded guilty Friday in a suburban New York a suburban New York crash that killed the father of Nicki Minaj and was promised a year or less in jail, disappointing prosecutors and the hip hop star's mother.In state court in Long Island's Nassau County, businessman Charles Polevich admitted leaving the scene of the February 2021 accident that fatally injured Robert Maraj as he walked along a road in Mineola.Polevich initially got out of his car and looked at the injured man on the ground, but then drove off, didn't call 911, garaged his car and covered it with a tarp, authorities said. Polevich pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence by concealing the car.Maraj, 64, died at a hospital the next day.Judge Howard Sturim said Polevich would get “no more than one year in jail,” along with community service and a suspended license.