Retired New York Metropolis journalist David Diaz who delivered the information to Huge Apple residents for many years and was affectionately often known as a “reporter’s reporter” died final week, CBS Information introduced Monday.
He was 82.
The trailblazing on-air expertise coated 9/11, presidential elections and different main breaking information occasions all through the 5 boroughs and nation on NBC 4 after which CBS 2 for about 30 years.
Former colleagues remembered him Monday as a mentor all the time keen to assist others.
“A reporter’s reporter. New York City guy,” CBS Night Information anchor Maurice Dubois known as Diaz in a tribute by the station. “Hardscrabble, you know, bringing himself up and wanted to bring others up as well.”
CBS Information anchor Mary Calvi added that the longtime broadcast reporter “understood New York like very few journalists know.”
“He was a consummate professional, a charming, charming man,” she stated.
Whereas the reason for demise was not revealed, Diaz’s household instructed his former station that he suffered from a type of dementia that made it tougher for him to speak as he bought older.
The newsman was born in Puerto Rico in 1942 earlier than he moved to Washington Heights in higher Manhattan as a toddler. He graduated from Fordham Prep, then Metropolis Faculty after which earned a grasp’s diploma at Columbia College, in response to CBS.
He labored as an activist and print reporter earlier than NBC 4 introduced him aboard for 15 years. CBS 2 then employed him the place he spent greater than 12 years earlier than leaving in 2015.
Following his information profession, Diaz taught future journalists as a technique to give again.
He was a lecturer at CUNY the place he taught mass media and politics and journalism, in response to his LinkedIn profile.
Diaz notched 5 Emmy Awards and was the primary Hispanic anchor at a serious New York tv station, in response to a blurb in 2017 by CUNY, which was presenting him with an honorary diploma on the time.
“I first met David Diaz when I was a print reporter and we went on a complicated trip to South America and Central America,” CBS political reporter Marcia Kramer stated within the station’s tribute.
“He was able to take this complex story with multiple, multiple locations and cut in the field and feed a piece back and be on the evening news every single night. He was able to do it and make it look so incredibly effortless.”
In 2008, he instructed the Day by day Information that he suffered from well being points, together with a sinus drawback and complications, stemming from his on-the-ground protection at Floor Zero following the fear assaults on the World Commerce Middle.
He leaves behind his spouse, Andrea, two daughters and a son-in-law.
