Barry Lando

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Barry Lando
Born (1939-06-08) 8 June 1939 (age 84)
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)Journalist, Author and Producer
TelevisionCBS' 60 Minutes
Website http://BarryMLando.com/

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

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Career

Lando graduated from Harvard University in 1961 [2] and Columbia University.[ citation needed ] 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.[ citation needed ]

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