FROM WIKIPEDIA:
Timothy John Russert (May 7, 1950–June 13, 2008) was an American television journalist
and lawyer who appeared for more than 16 years as the longest-serving moderator of NBC's
Meet the Press. He was a Senior Vice President at NBC News, Washington bureau chief and
also hosted the eponymous CNBC/MSNBC weekend interview program Tim Russert.
He was a frequent correspondent and guest on NBC's The Today Show and Hardball. Russert covered several
presidential elections, and he presented the NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey on the
NBC Nightly News during the 2008 U.S. presidential election. Time Magazine included Russert
in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008. Russert was
posthumously revealed as a thirty-year source for the columnist Robert Novak.