Journalists and media personalities responded emotionally to the loss of CBS News’ “60 Minutes” correspondent and foreign reporter Bob Simon, who died in a car crash Wednesday evening in New York City.
Simon was riding in the passenger seat of a vehicle that lost control and hit another at West 32nd Street and 12th Avenue in Manhattan at 6:45 p.m. The veteran reporter was later pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital. He was 73 years old.
CNN’s Anderson Cooper, who had worked closely with Simon in the past, reacted to the news on air Wednesday evening. Cooper said that from the time he was a small child, he looked up to Simon.
“To me, he was everything a reporter should be and that I dreamed of being and still to this day hope to be a quarter of the reporter and the writer that Bob Simon was,” Cooper said.
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Deeply saddened by death of great journalist Bob Simon. My heart goes out to his family and daughter, Tanya, a superb @60Minutes producer
— Norah O’Donnell (@NorahODonnell) February 12, 2015
very sad….feel terrible for Bob Simon’s family @SixtyMinutes and what a loss for all of us who admired his work
— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) February 12, 2015
