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Richard Cohen Dies: Emmy-Winning Journalist Husband Of Meredith Vieira Was 76

Richard Cohen, a former senior producer on CNN and CBS News who was married for 38 years to Today anchor Meredith Vieira, died of following a two-month battle with pneumonia December 24 after living with multiple sclerosis for more than five decades. He was 76. Cohen’s death was announced this morning on both NBC’s Today […]

Richard Cohen, a former senior producer on CNN and CBS News who was married for 38 years to Today anchor Meredith Vieira, died of following a two-month battle with pneumonia December 24 after living with multiple sclerosis for more than five decades. Quoting Vieira, Behar said that the date of his passing was “fitting, because he came into this world on Valentine’s Day,” and his Christmas Eve death “felt like perfect symmetry.” Cohen was born February 14, 1948, on Long Island, New York. “I remember he had a cancer scare one time that was devastating to [Vieira] and, of course, to him,” Behar said, “but he never let illness control or define his life…He was a renaissance man, an accomplished writer and a TV producer and a three-time Emmy winner.”

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