Stuart Novins (March 30, 1914 – December 7, 1989) was an American television journalist. He was a CBS News correspondent for 35 years. Novins covered Fidel Castro's ascent to power in Cuba and later reported on the Bay of Pigs invasion. From 1958 to 1961 Novins was the CBS network's United Nations correspondent. In the 1960s as a Moscow correspondent, he covered the political collapse of

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. He was the chief of the CBS News bureau in Moscow from 1962 to 1965. As the second moderator for ''

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'', he interviewed national as well as international world leaders. In 1960, the year he left his position on ''Face the Nation'', he served as a panelist at the first televised presidential debate between Senator

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and Vice President Richard M. Nixon, which took place in Chicago at the studios of CBS-owned

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. He retired from television in 1975 and joined the faculty at the

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, where he taught broadcast journalism until 1981. Novins died of

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on December 7, 1989, at age 75, in

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