Mark Knoller, a longtime White House correspondent for CBS News, has died, according to the network . He was 73. A cause of death was was not disclosed, but he had reportedly suffered from diabetes and was in poor health.

“Mark Knoller was the hardest-working and most prolific White House correspondent of a generation,” Tom Cibrowski, president and executive editor of CBS News, said. “Everyone in America knew his distinctive voice and his up-to-the-minute reporting across eight Presidential administrations.”

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Born in Brooklyn, New York, on Feb. 20, 1952, Knoller worked at WNEW Radio and the Associated Press Radio Network before moving to CBS, where in just a few years he became the White House correspondent for CBS Radio.

Knoller covered the administrations of Presi

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