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

Career

Lando graduated from Harvard University in 1961[2] and Columbia University.Шаблон: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.Шаблон:Cn

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External links

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