Mark Knoller, former White House correspondent for CBS News, died. He was 73 years old.
CBS News announced that Knoller died in Washington, DC, and although a cause of death was not disclosed, he suffered from diabetes and was in poor health.
He became a well -known correspondent for the White House during his stay with CBS News from 1988 to 2020, when he left the broadcaster. Knoller pivoted his journalism career during his last decade with CBS in Twitter (now known as X) as problems with his voice have limited his radio broadcasting capacities. He has become well known on the platform, amazing nearly 300,000 where he shared news about the White House.
“Mark Knoller was the hardest and most prolific white house correspondent of a generation,” said Tom Cibrowski, president and editor of CBS News, in a statement. “Everyone in America knew their distinctive voice and their reports per minute on eight presidential administrations.”
Born in Brooklyn, New York, on February 20, 1952, Knoller graduated from New York University and quickly started his media career as an intern and copy to Wnew Radio. After finally having become a weekend journalist for the radio station, he became a journalist of the Associated Press Radio Network in 1975.
He worked there for 13 years before receiving an offer to become editor -in -chief of the office of Washington CBS News in 1988. After not having appreciated the role, CBS News pivoted and offered him the role of correspondent of the White House for CBS Radio, which was in particular his dream work.
During his career as a Radio correspondent with CBS, he covered the last year of George HW Bush’s mandate, both of Bill Clinton’s terms, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and the first term of President Donald Trump.
“Mark Knoller has defined what it means to colline and cover the White House,” said the chief correspondent for the White House of CBS News, Major Garrett. “Mark added value where the others could never – myself including. Mark was the most devoted, tenacious and clear journalist I have ever had the honor of knowing. As long as I live, I am among the biggest blessings of my life that I was able to work alongside him.”
