Michael Rosenbaum, a producer with CBS News for over a quarter-century, has died, the network just announced. He was 64.

Rosenbaum was one of those increasingly rare old-school reporter types — dogged, smart, meticulous and particularly courageous, who went into some of the most dangerous places in the world for the networ. He was Bob Simon's producer, and doubtless you saw the name for many years on many of his superb "60  Minutes” pieces that originated from the Middle East. 

 Per CBS, he had been diagnosed with a brain tumor last September. 

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