Barry Lando

Barry Lando (born June 8, 1939) is a Canadian journalist, author, and former producer for CBS' 60 Minutes.[1]

Barry Lando
Born (1939-06-08) 8 June 1939
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author and Producer
TelevisionCBS' 60 Minutes
Websitehttp://BarryMLando.com/

Career

Lando graduated from Harvard University in 1961[2] and Columbia University. He was a producer for 60 Minutes for over 25 years, most of those producing stories for Mike Wallace.[3] Lando produced the first interview with the Ayatollah Khomeini after the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, which aired 14 days after the hostages were captured.[4] Another famous story he produced was on the 1990 Temple Mount riots.[5] Wallace said of Lando and another producer, "if it wasn't for [Marion Goldin] and Barry there would be no 60 Minutes."[6]

Lando pioneered the use of hidden cameras for investigative television reporting.[6] He was awarded a George Polk award for Television Reporting in 1977.[7] Lando and Wallace won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award in 1990 for the segment "40,000 a Day."[8] Lando also won two Emmys at 60 Minutes.[9]

In 2004, Lando collaborated with Michel Despratx to produce a documentary for Canal+ called "Saddam Hussein, the Trial the World Will Never See."[10] Lando's 2007 book, Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush, covered 85 years of Western intervention in Iraq.[11][12] Lando has written for The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, and Le Monde.[9]

Herbert v. Lando

Colonel Anthony Herbert sued Lando and Wallace for libel for a 1973 60 Minutes broadcast that painted Herbert as a liar.[13] The case reached the United States Supreme Court as Herbert v. Lando 441 U.S. 153 (1979).[14][15] It was part of a series of appellate cases that set the boundaries of the press's right to publish information about private and public figures and an important authority for plaintiffs in defamation cases.

References
  1. O'Keefe, Derrick (January 31, 2007). "Web of Deceit By Barry M. Lando". Georgia Straight. Vancouver. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. "Students to Start New Publication". Harvard Crimson. March 10, 1962. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  3. Lando, Barry (June 9, 2012). "My Quarter Century With Mike Wallace". Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  4. "1970s: Talking back to the Ayatollah Khomeini". CBS News. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  5. Lando, Barry (April 12, 2012). "Remembering Mike Wallace, A Jew Unafraid of the Truth". Forward. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  6. Rader, Peter (2012). Mike Wallace: A Life. Macmillan. ISBN 9781466802254. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  7. "1977 George Polk Award Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  8. Carmody, John (April 11, 1990). "The TV Column". Washington Post. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  9. "Barry Lando". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  10. "Saddam's fair trial documentary". SBS. October 25, 2004. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
  11. "WEB OF DECEIT by Barry Lando". Kirkus Reviews. November 15, 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  12. "Barry Lando on 'The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, From Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush'". Democracy Now!. January 30, 2007. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  13. Lubasch, Arnold H. (January 16, 1986). "COURT THROWS OUT LIBEL SUIT FILED AGAINST CBS BY COLONEL". New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  14. "HERBERT v. LANDO". FindLaw. Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  15. Gray, Brian E. (1978). "Herbert v. Lando: State of Mind Discovery and the New York Times v. Sullivan Libel Balance". Cal. L. Rev. 66 (5). doi:10.2307/3479908. JSTOR 3479908. Retrieved July 8, 2015.

Further reading
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.