Robert Edward Ferrante (October 6, 1934 – September 15, 2022) was an American news producer.

Biography

Ferrante was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Anna Castellucci and Pasquale Ferrante, a bank teller. He was raised in Arlington, Massachusetts and attended pharmacy school. Ferrante attended Boston University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1957. He worked for the television station WNAC, where he described the aftermath of the John F. Kennedy

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. Ferrante served as the news director for stations in numerous cities. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he had worked at the WGBH-TV. Ferrante got WGBH-TV an

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, in which it was described as best news station. After that, he was hired by the

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to serve as the

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for the '' CBS Overnight News''. He also produced for the '' CBS Morning News'' and had worked for the

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news magazine '' The World''. Ferrante served as a member of the

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. He was then hired by NPR to work for the '' Morning Edition''. Ferrante died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 15, 2022, at the age of 87.

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