Retired New York Journalist City David Diaz, who reported on Big Apple residents for decades and was loved as a “reporter of reporter” died last week, CBS News reported on Monday.
He was 82 years old.
Open air talent covered 9/11, presidential elections and other major news events across the five municipalities and nation at NBC 4 and then CBS 2 for about 30 years.
Former colleagues remembered him on Monday as a mentor always ready to help others.
“Reporter of a reporter. New York City Guy, ”CBS Evening News Maurice Dubois called Diaz in a tribute from the station. “Hardscrabble, you know, growing yourself and wanted to bring others too.”
Anchor of CBS News Mary Calvi added that the long broadcast reporter “realized New York as very few journalists know.”
“He was a perfect professional, a charming, charming man,” she said.
While the cause of death was not discovered, Diaz’s family told his earlier station that he suffered from a form of madness that made him more difficult for him to communicate as he grew up.
Newsman was born in Porto Rico in 1942 before moving to Washington Heights to Upper Manhattan as a little boy. He graduated in Fordham prep, then City College and then won a master’s degree at Columbia University, according to CBS.
He worked as an activist and reporter printed before NBC 4 brought him to board for 15 years. CBS 2 then hired the one where it passed more than 12 years before leaving in 2015.
After his news career, Diaz learned future journalists as a way to return.
He was a lecturer in Cuny where he learned mass media and political and journalist, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Diaz scored five Emmy awards and was the first Hispanic anchor at a large television station in New York, according to an explosion in 2017 from Cuny, who was presenting it with a degree of honor at the time.
“I first met David Diaz when I was a oppressed reporter and went on a complex trip to South America and Central America,” said CBS Marcia Kramer’s political reporter in the station’s tribute.
“He was able to get this complex story with numerous places, numerous and cut into the field and feed a piece of back and be in the evening news every single night. He was able to make it and make it so easy.”
In 2008, he told the Daily News that he was suffering from health issues, including a sinus problem and headaches arising from his land covering in Ground zero after terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center.
He leaves behind his wife, Andrea, two daughters and a groom.
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