Andrew Lack (executive)
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May 16, 1947 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Boston University |
| Occupation | Chairman of NBC News and MSNBC |
Andrew Lack (born May 16, 1947) is the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC.
Prior to NBC, Lack held a series of media executive positions, including as the chairman and CEO of Bloomberg Media Group; chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment; and president and chief operating officer of NBC Universal.
He began his career as a journalist at CBS, winning 10 Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards as a television producer.
Lack was born in New York City to a Jewish family. He attended the Browning School, a private school in New York, studied at the Sorbonne, University of Paris and graduated from Boston University's College of Fine Arts in 1968. After graduation, he appeared as an actor in numerous television commercials and an off-Broadway production.
After graduating he worked as a producer of TV commercial, joined CBS News in 1976, following the next year with "60 Minutes" and from 1978 until 1985, produced CBS Reports. He also served as correspondent on The American-Israeli Connection in 1982. Lack worked with Bill Moyers during the early 80s, as producer of both Our Times With Bill Moyers (1983) and Crossroads (1984).
In 1976, Lack was hired by 60 Minutes creator Don Hewitt at CBS News as a producer for the personality-driven television show Who's Who. That led to a job as a producer for 60 Minutes. Lack produced such segments as "Inside Afghanistan" and "Kissinger and The Oil Embargo." He wrote and directed the segment "The Real Malcolm X: An Intimate Portrait of the Man."
He later became the executive producer for CBS Reports, where he stayed for seven years, followed by a four-year stint starting in 1985 as the executive producer of West 57th hosted by Meredith Vieira, a long-format news program.West 57th was known for mixing new storytelling techniques and topics with the same journalistic standards as 60 Minutes.
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