Mark Knoller Dies at 73

Longtime CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller has passed away. He was 73.

No cause of death was released, though Knoller had battled diabetes and health issues in recent years.

Knoller was a staple in the White House briefing room, first arriving there for the Associated Press Radio Network in the late ’70s before moving to CBS in 1988. Over more than three decades, he chronicled the day-to-day lives of presidents from George H.W. Bush to Donald Trump, and became known for his encyclopedic stats on presidential travel and events. His distinctive voice and rapid-fire reports made him one of the most recognizable figures in the press corps.

CBS News president Tom Cibrowski called him “the hardest-working and most prolific White House correspondent of a generation.”

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