Mary Nissenson (April 1952 - October 23, 2017) is an American television journalist, who is also a businessman, social activist and university instructor.
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Early life and education
As a graduate of summa cum laude from Vassar College in 1974, Nissenson received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1977, where he was the first woman elected president of a law student association in the history of the institution.
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Career broadcast journalism
After a brief practice as a corporate litigator with a Chicago Hopkins & amp; Sutter, Nissenson was employed as head of consumer affairs unit investigator (Factfinder) at WBBM-TV Chicago. He received his first Emmy Award eight months later for his investigative report on violations of child labor law - a series also received the Gavel Silver Award from the American Bar Association in 1979, Jacob Scher Award for investigative reporting, and Peter Lisagor Awarded.
In 1980, Nissenson was hired as a reporter/documentary for WTVJ-Miami. Shortly thereafter, Nissenson went to Israel and Poland to produce the Testimony Kit, documenting the return of Holocaust victims to Auschwitz and the Auschwitz Album donations, a valuable picture recording of the Holocaust, to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem.
While in Warsaw, Nissenson was asked by CBS Network News to cover the Lech Walesa Solidarity Movement and the subsequent work strike that led to the democratization of Poland. A series of Nissenson reports, Polish: Changing Nation , received the George Foster Peabody Award (TV Pulitzer Award) just two months after he started his first full on-air reporting job.
Nissenson was hired by NBC Network News in 1982, where, in addition to being a correspondent of three presidential campaigns, he sometimes became a guest star on Today , NBC News at Sunrise , < i> NBC News Overnight and NBC News Digest . He left the network in 1985 to report and anchor for WABC-TV in New York.
From 1987 to 1988, Nissenson worked as a reporter at WBBM-TV in Chicago. In an interview with Chicago Sun-Times TV columnist Robert Feder, Nissenson denied that he had resigned from the station in May 1988 because he could not get an anchor slot at the station. "I just want to be my own person," he told Feder.
Career as an entrepreneur
In 1988, Nissenson formed Foresight Communications, Inc. (FCI). FCI works with Fortune 500 companies to divert money from traditional marketing and advertising to public service businesses, earning Nissenson recognition as one of the "Socially Responsible Entrepreneurs of the Year" by INC Magazine and entering the Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. During the same period, she and her husband, Bill Scheer (now deceased), established Assignment Desk, Inc. the world's first computerized booking agency for videographers.
The Nissenson Company, Foresight Communications, Inc., served as the Agency of Record for the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month during the first decade.
Plastic accident operation
In 1995, a plastic disaster surgery accident left Nissenson in residence and deformed with an incurable condition of pain, later known as sympathetic dystrophy of the skull reflex - ranking together terminal bone cancer as one of the most painful conditions in the world. The accident was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, in countless newspapers and magazines, and several documentaries, including America's Beautiful (2007). He spent most of the next 14 years lying in bed. During this period, Nissenson founded the Triumph Over Pain Foundation, one of the country's first pain patient advocacy groups, and wrote a column to provide advice and encouragement to other pain patients.
He also became an independent glass craftsman and award-winning jeweler and opened the Bali Muse gallery in Chicago, whose earnings support his foundation's work of pain.
Abandoned by her husband and dropped by her insurance company, Nissenson lost her home savings and her life, paying medical expenses up to millions of dollars. In 2007, he moved to Kauai in hopes of healing and regaining his strength.
Next year
Nissenson spent the last years of his life in Sausalito, California, where he became a multi-media graduate instructor at the San Francisco University Art Academy. He also formed Global Gravitas, Inc. (501c3) specializing in strategic planning for international peace meetings and global health care campaigns. Among their current projects are: A.M.E.N. (the first global campaign against MRSA) in collaboration with the President of the US Federation for Middle East Peace, and OMG (Obesity Must Go) national campaign to combat obesity, supports First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" effort.
Nissenson died of septic shock on October 23, 2017.
Personal life
Nissenson married first with a lawyer, Michael Sweeney, and then to Chicago TV reporter Mike Parker until 1989, when they divorced. He married Bill Scheer in 1994, and the couple divorced several years later.
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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