Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died on Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a village in Westchester County. He was 76.
His wife, the former “Today” show host Meredith Vieira, said his death, in a hospital, was caused by acute respiratory failure.
Mr. Cohen spent more than 20 years in the news business, working with luminaries like Ted Koppel at ABC and Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather at CBS. But he tackled a different subject when he wrote a memoir — and articles for HuffPost, The New York Times and other outlets — about dealing with M.S., a degenerative disease of the central nervous system.
