Van Gordon Sauter, who was then the head of CBS News, “told me when he gave me the job, ‘Let’s not live with something in the past,’ ” Mr. Ferrante said, “and I agree.”
In a decades-long career fostering innovative approaches to broadcast news programs, Mr. Ferrante also oversaw the overhaul and growth of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition” during the 1990s, bolstering its news operation and enlisting producer Ira Glass and humorist David Sedaris for commentary and features.
Mr. Ferrante was 87 when he died Sept. 15 in Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, according to information his family provided. His daughter, Donna Ferrante-Nuttall of Taunton, told The Washington Post that the cause was complications from a stroke.
