Obituaries.(includes Ed Bliss, Ernest Leiser and Nina Elias Bamberger)

Broadcasting & Cable, December, 2002

Longtime CBS newsman and journalism educator ED BLISS, 90, a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow and founder of the broadcast journalism program at American University in Washington, died of a respiratory disorder Nov. 25. "Ed Bliss was a mentor to some of today's best broadcast journalists," said Barbara Cochran, president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association, which gave Bliss its Paul White Award in 1993.

Longtime CBS news producer and 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt said, "Ed Bliss worked in radio when it was the end-all and be-all of news broadcasting, and he was the editor for Murrow's boys. There was no one better." ERNEST LEISER, 81, a veteran CBS News producer and foreign correspondent, died of an apparent heart attack Tuesday,...

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