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NEW YORK (AP) _ A former Emmy-winning television producer who worked with Tom Brokaw at NBC News died Monday after falling from his apartment building, police said. Police initially reported that the producer, Eric R. Wishnie, was hit by a vehicle that fled the scene, but later they said they had located a witness who saw him as he fell from an adjacent building. The medical examiner's office said it had scheduled an autopsy. NBC News President Steve Capus said in a statement that Wishnie, 44, was "an enormously talented former senior producer at NBC News, who had a hand...

A TV news producer may have been killed by a hit-and-run driver outside his Greenwich Village apartment Monday morning, police said. Eric Wishnie, 44, was crossing at Sixth Avenue and 10th Street when he was allegedly struck at 3:05 a.m., according to authorities. Wishnie was a producer for NBC News. He died at St. Vincent's Hospital, police said. Wishnie was on leave from the network. He is the husband of NBC reporter Dawn Fratangelo. NBC News President Steve Capus issued the following statement: Eric Wishnie was an enormously talented former senior producer at NBC News, who had a hand in...