NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman Dies

NEW YORK -- Veteran NBC newsman Edwin Newman has died. He was 91.

His lawyer says Newman died of pneumonia Aug. 13 in Oxford, England. He'd moved there with his wife in 2007 to live closer to their daughter. The family delayed announcing Newman's death so they could spend some time privately grieving.

While at NBC from 1952 until 1984, Newman did political reporting, foreign reporting and anchoring. With his rumpled, squinting delivery, Newman impressed his audience not so much with how he looked as with the likelihood that what he'd say would be worth hearing.

He turned to writing books in the 1970s, writing a pair of best-sellers on the use and misuse of the English language.

Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw described Newman as "always a gentleman and a reassuring presence in our midst."

Current NBC anchor Brian Williams says: "To those of us watching at home, he made us feel like we had a very smart, classy friend in the broadcast news business."
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Source: The Associated Press

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