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| Born | Clifton Garrick Utley (1939-11-19)November 19, 1939 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | February 20, 2014(2014-02-20) (aged 74) New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Carleton College |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
| Known for | Work atNBC News,PBS,ABC News, andCNN |
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Clifton Garrick Utley (November 19, 1939 – February 20, 2014) was an Americantelevision journalist. He established his career reporting about theVietnam War and has the distinction of being the first full-time television correspondent covering the war on-site.
Utley was born inChicago, Illinois. He graduated fromWesttown School, aQuaker boarding school in Westtown,Pennsylvania, in 1957 and fromCarleton College in 1961. His parents, Frayn and Clifton Utley, were correspondents for theNBC Radio Network in the mid-20th century, based in Chicago.[1]
Utley joinedNBC News in 1963 as researcher in Europe for TheHuntley-Brinkley Report, where he became Foreign and Principal correspondent. Besides covering the Vietnam War, Utley reported from many other areas, including stints as bureau chief inLondon andParis. He reported on events within the U.S. as well.
Utley was also an anchor. He served as weekend anchor from 1971–1973, and frequently substituted forJohn Chancellor during that decade and forTom Brokaw in the 1980s onNBC Nightly News. He also filled in for Bryant Gumbel as host ofToday. Utley was news anchor forSunday Today from 1987 to 1988 and frequently substituted forBoyd Matson, and then co-anchored the program from 1988 to 1992. Utley also served again as main weekend anchor (Sunday initially, and both Saturday and Sunday later) from 1987 to 1993 ofNBC Nightly News. One noteworthyNightly News broadcast Utley appeared on January 22, 1973, the day theU.S. Supreme Court handed down itsRoe v. Wade decision. In the midst of that broadcast (fed to affiliates at 6:30 p.m.Eastern), and just before reporting on the decision, news broke that former U.S. PresidentLyndon B. Johnson had died.
In the 1970s, Utley frequently hosted newsmagazine-style programs forNBC News. In the UK, he covered theFebruary 1974 British General Election and appeared on the BBC election-night program. In the US, from January 1989 to December 1991, he moderated NBC's long-running public affairs discussion programMeet the Press, while simultaneously hosting the newly debuted Sunday version of theToday Show. In 1992, Utley issued a controversial commentary essay at the close of a weekend newscast, expressing a view that then-PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush should forgo reelection in the interest of the country.[citation needed]
For a time, Utley hosted thePBSopera seriesLive from the Met, during which he introduced the televised performances and interviewed the participants during intermissions.
Utley worked forNBC News for 30 years before moving toABC as chief foreign correspondent in 1993. He later moved toCNN in 1997, where he worked until 2002. He co-anchored CNN's coverage of theterrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, during the early morning hours of September 12, 2001.[citation needed]
After leaving network television, Utley was a professor of broadcasting and journalism at theState University of New York at Oswego and was senior fellow at the SUNY Levin Institute of theState University of New York in Manhattan, from which he retired as head in December 2011.[2] He also co-hostedAmerica Abroad onpublic radio, a program that examines the United States' role and relationships in the world, and hostedMetropolitan Opera broadcasts onpublic television.
He authoredYou Should Have Been Here Yesterday (2000), a narrative of the growth of television news in the United States. Board service included TheCouncil on Foreign Relations (1993–2003),Carleton College (1983–2007), Public Radio International (1996–2008), the Board of Advisors ofDoctors without Borders, and Chairman of the American Council on Germany.[citation needed]
Utley died on February 20, 2014, at the age of 74, fromprostate cancer. He was survived by his wife, Gertje Utley (née Rommeswinkel); his brothers, David andJonathan; and his sister-in-law,Carol Marin, a longtime reporter at NBC stationWMAQ.[3]
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