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Television Giant Brought Blunt Style to Cancer Fight in Popular Blog Leroy Sievers, a veteran broadcast journalist, former executive producer of ABC News "Nightline" and the author of a popular and candid daily blog about his battle with cancer, "My Cancer", has died at age 53. Leroy Sievers served as executive producer of ABC News' "Nightline" from 2000-2005 with anchor Ted Koppel. Sievers was an award-winning television producer who reported from nearly every major war and natural disaster in his nearly three decades in the business. Heart of 'Nightline' He was the executive producer of "Nightline" from 2000-2005, embedding with Ted Koppel with the Army's Third Infantry Division during the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Sievers felt strongly about reporting on the work and sacrifice of American servicemen and women. It was... [read full story]
