title: Jeff Gralnick
text: # Jeff Gralnick
  
  Jeff Gralnick (April 3, 1939, Brooklyn, New York – May 9, 2011, Weston, Connecticut) was a television journalist 47 years, as well as a professor of new media at Columbia University and Fairfield University.
  
  Gralnick served as a news consultant for NBC until his death. His experience includes: reporting on the field in Vietnam for CBS News. He served as a vice president and Executive Producer for ABC's World News Tonight, as an Executive Producer of NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, and as an Executive overlooking the creation of ABCNews.com. He covered the astronaut Alan Shepard's mission in 1961, produced the coverage for every U.S. space flight through Apollo 11, and also covered man's return to space in 1988 after the space shuttle Challenger's accident.
  
  A graduate of New York University, Jeff was familiar with the NYC Metro as an adjunct professor of New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the Fairfield University Journalism Program.
  
  