"A true loss: relentless 60-year NYC reporter Gabe Pressman dead, 93".
WNBC's senior correspondent, Pressman was part of the O&O's news team for more than 50 years.
"He was truly one of a kind and represented the very best in television news reporting". He reported on decades of major news events, including the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956 and Woodstock in 1969. He was also a regular for 65 years at the annual Inner Circle dinner, where NY journalists get to make fun of the politicians they cover-the troupe referred to him as the "Dean of the NY press corps". "As always, his just appearing on stage would bring down the house".
Pressman was "a tenacious seeker of truth" who fought "ferociously for journalists' rights" and tirelessly defended the Constitution's First Amendment guarantee of the right to free speech, said Steve Scott, president of the New York Press Club.
The New York State Broadcasters Association inductee started working at WRCA radio in 1954.
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Pressman was known as New York's first TV reporter, an intrepid force who who was among the first to bring his own camera crew out of the studio to offer live on the scene reports on everything from fires to murders to natural and man-made disasters. His death was confirmed by WNBC-TV, which had been his home since 1980.
Survivors include his wife, Vera, four children, eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
And ever since then, "Gabe was still coming to work and thinking about the next story", Lerner said.
Funeral services were pending.
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