We were always partial to Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes. He wore an earring in his left lobe, he seemed kind, and didn’t have an overpowering interviewing or reporting technique. For him, the story was always the story. He died today of leukemia at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He was 65, notably young for a male on the wise but wrinkly CBS news magazine, which he joined in 1981. Introducing Bradley to receive a journalism award in front of a racially mixed audience not long ago, former 60 Minutes producer Don Hewitt said, “I hired Ed Bradley because he’s a member of a minority.” Then, after the crowd gasped in shock, he added, “He’s a great gentleman and a great reporter. And if that ain’t a minority, I don’t know one.” “He was a great journalist who did the most serious work without ever seeming to take himself seriously,” said Barbara Walters today. “He certainly was a reporter’s reporter,” said 60 Minutes colleague Mike Wallace. “Longtime newsman Ed Barley has died of leukemia at age 65,” said rival ABC7 Eyewitness News in an email this morning. (Source)