Don Hewitt Writing Autobiography

Sun., Sept. 17, 2000

New York Daily News

Don Hewitt, who created the most successful news broadcast in the history of television, has been guarding one of the best-kept secrets in publishing.

The veteran executive producer of “60 Minutes” is completing his autobiography, “Tell Me a Story,” which will be published next spring by PublicAffairs.

“I wanted to write a book that would be totally honest - a book with no bull,” said Hewitt, 77.

It will include the controversial decision in 1995 to initially withhold a major “60 Minutes” piece featuring tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, whose story later became the focus of the movie “The Insider.”

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