Television journalism has lost one of its pioneers. Former "60 Minutes" executive editor Phil Scheffler died Thursday at the age of 85.
For a quarter century, his steady hand and integrity guided the story-telling you saw each Sunday on "60 Minutes." Scheffler was the trusted right-hand man of the program's creator, Don Hewitt.
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