Small, William J.
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Name (Latin)
Small, William J.
Other forms of name
Small, Bill, 1926-2020
Small, Bill
Date of birth
1926-09-20
Date of death
2020-05-24
Field of activity
Business education
Journalism
Television broadcasting of news
Occupation
Deans (Education)
Executives
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Washington post WWW site, viewed May 29, 2020(in obituary dated May 26, 2020: William J. Small, a television news executive who presided over the Washington bureau of CBS News in the 1960s and 1970s, died May 24 in Manhattan. He was 93. In 1974, Mr. Small left Washington to become the network's senior vice president for news in New York. He was widely expected to succeed Richard S. Salant as president of CBS News, but he was passed over when Salant retired in 1978. Mr. Small moved on a year later to lead the news division at NBC. In 1982 he left the network. He later spent two years as the head of the United Press International wire service before being fired in 1984. William Jack Small was born Sept. 20, 1926, in Chicago. After working at NBC and UPI, Mr. Small stayed in New York, teaching at Fordham University. He helped create an MBA program in media management and, from 1992 to 1994, was a dean at Fordham's Graduate School of Business. From 2000 to 2010, he chaired the news and documentary section of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization that presents Emmy Awards)
- Town meeting tonight. [1975], Talking back to CBS, 1975:caption credit (Bill Small)
- Political power and the press, 1970:t.p. (William J. Small)
- To kill a messenger, 1972:t.p. (William Small)
- Lexis-Nexis, Oct. 23, 1998: The quill, c1997:sect. No. 4, v. 85, p. 11 (Bill Small, former CBS News director, NBC News president and UPI president; retired from Fordham University)
- LC database, Oct. 28, 1998(hdg.: Small, William J.; usage: William J. Small; William Small)