Stuart Novins

Stuart Novins (March 30, 1914 – December 7, 1989) was an American television journalist who worked as a CBS News correspondent for 35 years. He covered significant events such as Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the political collapse of Nikita Khrushchev as a Moscow correspondent. From 1958 to 1961, Novins served as CBS network's United Nations correspondent. He also moderated Face the Nation, where he interviewed national and international leaders. In 1960, Novins participated as a panelist in the first televised presidential debate between Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. After retiring from television in 1975, Novins joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico as a broadcast journalism professor until 1981.