David Broder, the Pulitzer prize winning Washington Post reporter and columnist died today, due to complications from diabetes, the Post reports.
Broder was a fixture on NBC’s “Meet the Press” where he appeared 401 times, according to EP Betsy Fischer. Fischer tweeted this photo of Broder when he celebrated 30 years of appearing on the show — “and that was 18 yrs ago!” she writes.
David Broder was 81.
A statement from Fischer, after the jump…
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FishbowlDC has the clip from yesterday’s multi-national Meet the Press, where Tom Brokaw spoke with Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in Beijing, while David Gregory wrapped up the hour with a political round-table in Washington. The round-table included WaPo columnist and MTP veteran David Broder seated next to CNBC’s Erin Burnett; a coupling Gregory had some fun with:
“Somebody around this table is celebrating their 400th appearance on meet the press, and I think I speak for everybody when I say congratulations Erin Burnett…”
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