Word: russerts
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...Russert first appeared on-air for NBC News in 1990 as a panelist on "Meet the Press." He took over as moderator of the show in December of the next year...
According to Marvin Kalb, who was moderator of "Meet the Press" from 1984 to 1987, Russert became involved with the show early in his NBC career...
...Russert moved up quickly in NBC's ranks, participating in daily conference calls to coordinate all of the network's news programs...
...Meet the Press" senior producer Betsy Fischer says Russert impressed his NBC bosses during the calls with his in-depth knowledge of the political scene...
...producers realized that they ought to put this on the air, because they were learning more [about politics from Russert] from the conference calls than from anything else," Fischer says...