New York – Michael Rosenbaum, an award-winning CBS News producer who served as Tel Aviv bureau chief during the first Palestinian uprising against Israel, has died. He was 64.
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CBS News reports that Rosenbaum died Thursday in New York of a brain tumor.
Rosenbaum collaborated with correspondents Bob Simon and Dan Rather on stories in the Middle East while Tel Aviv bureau chief from 1989 to 1995. His field producing played a key role in coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, which won a Peabody award and two Emmys.
He was a producer for “60 Minutes” and the “CBS Evening News.” He retired from CBS News in 2008 after 27 years.
Rosenbaum was born in Rochester. He’s survived by a brother, David, and a sister, Judy Witt.
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