David Bloom

...he became a substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News and Today. Holt became a full-time co-anchor of Weekend Today following the untimely death of previous co-anchor David Bloom. Until late 2005, he also anchored a 2-hour daily newscast on...

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...who worked under him. Bloom recalls one night a few years ago, after her husband had been away on assignment for a long stretch of time, when Russert told David to leave the office, go home, and hug his children. "Here is a boss saying...

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...News as correspondent in Chicago , Illinois, and moved to Los Angeles , California in 1995. Bloom later became NBC's White House correspondent. In 1999, Bloom was named co-anchor of Weekend Today along with Soledad O'Brien, a position he...

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...of GE to fund it. NBC newsman David Bloom pushed through the GE and U.S. Department of Defense bureaucracies permission to construct a mobile news vehicle that could transmit live video broadcasts from the battlefield. The "Bloom-mobile"...

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...of foreign correspondents; the fortitude of female friendship. (Years before the accident, the Woodruffs became good friends with NBC News anchor David Bloom and wife Melanie. Lee Woodruff helped comfort Melanie Bloom when her husband died...

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Personal Health: Disorder Magnifies Blood Clot Risk When David Bloom, 39, went to Iraq in 2003 to cover the war for NBC News, his wife, Melanie, naturally feared for his safety. Would a bullet or a bomb claim him? A land mine? An ambush?

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...covering the war in Iraq. He'd been traveling in a military vehicle whose interior was designed for safety, not comfort, and had reportedly complained of pains in his legs, a classic warning sign for a blood clot. Former President Richard...

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...truffle cake. CNN's Candy Crowley was given the Joan Barone Award, and the David Bloom award -- named for the NBC News reporter killed in Iraq two years ago -- went to ABC's "Nightline" for a program titled "Burn Unit." Finally, we...

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