- Father of Jonathan Wald.
- He graduated from Columbia University and studied literature at the University of Cambridge, from which he received a master's degree.
- He started out as a reporter at the New York Herald Tribune.
- When he was president of NBC News, Paddy Chayefsky spent time with him while working on his Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 movie "Network". The character of a news division president, played by William Holden, was based in part on Wald.
- Newspaper and TV executive who was president of NBC News in the 1970s and helped create ABC's "Nightline".
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