TV host Meredith Vieira’s husband, journalist Richard Cohen, dies after 50-year Multiple Sclerosis battle


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Meredith Vieira and Richard Cohen married in 1986. Photo: TNS

Richard Cohen, an Emmy-winning journalist and husband of former Today show anchor Meredith Vieira, died on Christmas Eve, 50 years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He was 76.

The three-time Emmy award-winning CBS journalist had been battling pneumonia for two months when he died, Forbes reports. A former senior producer for CBS News and CNN, Cohen sometimes wrote for The New York Times’ Health And Fitness columns.

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