Tim Russert, moderator of NBC’s "Meet the Press" and one of the world's best-known journalists, died Friday afternoon after an apparent heart attack at the network’s Washington bureau, officials said. Russert, who was also bureau chief, was preparing for Sunday's broadcast and felt ill, the officials said. Russert, who served longer than any other moderator of the longest-running program in television history, started his Washington career as a Democratic congressional aide and rose to become the gold standard of Sunday television news show hosts. He was a relentless interviewer, feared by officials and politicians, yet his show was a highly prized forum because he was so respected.
His interrogational interviews forced candidates to clarify sometimes purposefully vague policy positions, while his analysis helped define the conventional wisdom of the horse race – occasionally earning the enmity of the campaigns.
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