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Russert is the son of newsman Tim Russert and Maureen Orth, a special correspondent for Vanity Fair. Russert graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. in 2004. [3] He worked for ESPN's Pardon the Interruption [4] while a student at Boston College, where he double-majored in Communications and History and graduated in 2008. [5]
In 1983, she married the political journalist Tim Russert, whom she met at the 1980 Democratic National Convention. Their son, Luke Russert, who was born in August 1985, is a former NBC News correspondent. [72] Orth is the dedicatee of her friend Larry McMurtry's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove. [73]
Russert was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Elizabeth "Betty" (née Seeley; January 9, 1929 – August 14, 2005), a homemaker, and Timothy Joseph "Big Russ" Russert (November 29, 1923 – September 24, 2009), a sanitation worker.
Since Tim Russert's death was announced by NBC Friday afternoon, prominent journalists and politicians have paid tribute to him. I won't attempt to compete with the likes of Andrea Mitchell, Tom ...
Now imagine if your parent were famous like Russert’s dad Tim Russert, who helmed NBC’s political talk show Meet the Press for 16 years. Tim Russert was regarded as one of the great political ...
“Tim Russert was a close family friend and his summer house was 20 minutes from here,” said Ebersol, speaking from his home in Litchfield, Conn. “He was in news at NBC and I was in sports.
Russert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Tim Russert (1950–2008), American journalist; Luke Russert (born 1985), American journalist, son of Tim; Megan Russert, fictional Baltimore homicide detective (and fictionally a relative of the real Tim Russert)
Network officials, concerned for the show's future, turned to Tim Russert, the network's bureau chief in Washington, D.C. He took over as moderator of Meet the Press on December 8, 1991, and remained with the program until his death on June 13, 2008, becoming the longest-serving moderator in the program's history.