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Along the way, Noyes was honored with TV s highest award, the Peabody, 10 Emmys, two Edward R. Murrow awards and many Golden Mike Awards. He taught his craft at USC s journalism school, and penned several books, including Legacy of Doubt, which linked organized crime to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
After retiring from the news business in 2008, he published several other books, including The Real L.A. Confidential, in which he wrote about some of L.A. s most notorious crimes, including the Manson family and O.J. Simpson murder cases.
His 2015 book, Who Killed the Big News, tells the story of KNXT s introduction in 1961 and ultimate death of The Big News, which was billed as the first 45-minute newscast in the nation and launched the careers of the late Jerry Dunphy and Ralph Story, among others.
Award-winning news producer and investigative journalist Pete Noyes, a Los Angeles television news pioneer and mentor to many colleagues and students who took his broadcast newswriting classes at USC and Cal State Northridge, has died at his home in Westlake Village.
Noyes, who had been in declining health, died Monday night at age 90, according to his son, Jack Noyes, a longtime assignment editor at NBC4.
For the record:
9:58 AM, Feb. 05, 2021An earlier version of this story said that Noyes worked at KOVR-TV in Sacramento. He worked at KXTV in Sacramento
Noyes began his journalism career at Stars and Stripes, the American military newspaper, while serving in the Army during the Korean War. During his decades-long career, he worked at KFMB-TV in San Diego, KXTV in Sacramento, and in Los Angeles at City News Service, KNXT/KCBS-TV, KNBC-TV, KABC-TV, KTTV-TV and KCOP-TV, along with the Fox network newsmagazine “Front Page.“
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A POW during World War II, he also emceed the game show The $64,000 Challenge and produced Tom Snyder s Tomorrow.
Sonny Fox, the beloved pioneer of kids television who demonstrated an amazing one-on-one rapport with children as the host of the New York-based Sunday morning program
Wonderama, has died. He was 95.
Fox died Sunday of pneumonia induced by COVID-19 in a hospital in Encino, his daughter, Meredith Fox, told
The Hollywood Reporter.
A native of Brooklyn who was a prisoner of war during World War II, Fox also served as a wartime correspondent for the Voice of America; emceed game shows like