The name Gene Mater may not be top-of-mind for today’s generation of broadcast journalists, but I can give you my personal assurance that Gene’s work on behalf of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation had, and is still having, a positive impact on their careers.
Anyone who has received an RTDNF scholarship or fellowship, anyone who has benefited directly or indirectly from RTDNF’s training and education programs, and anyone who has been honored at or has attended one of our annual First Amendment Dinners has Gene Mater to thank.
Gene – a longtime RTDNF treasurer and trustee, a veteran thought leader at the Freedom Forum and its Newseum, and former senior executive at CBS News, among other distinguished positions in a long, storied career – died Sunday, September 20, in Pennsylvania at the age of 93. His family attributed his death to COVID-19. Funeral arrangements are pending.
https://www.rtdna.org/article/rtdnf_mourns_the_passing_of_former_trustee_gene_mater
RIP to a former member of the CBS News Management and RTDNF Trustee.