Burton Benjamin
Burton Benjamin | |
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| Born | Burton Richard Benjamin October 9, 1917 Cleveland, Ohio |
| Died | September 18, 1988 (aged 70) |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Occupation(s) | Television director and producer |
| Years active | 1939–1985 |
| Notable credit | CBS Evening News |
Burton Richard Benjamin (October 9, 1917 – September 18, 1988) was a vice president and director of CBS News. He worked at CBS for 29 years, as a writer, producer, and executive. In that time, he was director of CBS News from 1978 to 1981 and executive producer of CBS Evening News from 1975 to 1978. He was a senior executive producer from 1968 to 1975 and from 1981 to 1985. At CBS, Benjamin often produced programs with Walter Cronkite.
He wrote Fair Play: CBS, General Westmoreland, and How a Television Documentary Went Wrong about the Benjamin Report, his report on The Uncounted Enemy and its related lawsuit.