Son of Ida Lubliner Reisman and Irwin Reisman, who ran a shoe store in Chicago before moving the family to work for an electronic parts business in Denver. He was editor of his high school newspaper, the "East High Spotlight" in Denver, and "The Justice" the student newspaper at Brandeis University. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Brandeis and a master's from the Columbia University's School of Journalism, he worked as a freelance writer and then arts reporter and editor for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy. At 26, he became the executive editor for the alternative paper, Boston After Dark. Leaving in 1971, he moved into television at WGBH and WCVB, Channel 5, where he worked on "Chronicle" and was awarded regional Emmys. He wrote scripts at WCVB at the end of the 1970s for "Park Street Under," a locally produced sitcom set in a Boston bar, eerily predicting NBC's "Cheers." He was the co-director and co-writer of "The Powder & the Glory," a documentary about cosmetics pioneers and competitors, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. He co-wrote "The Other Side of the Moon," a 1990 documentary about Apollo astronauts, and he directed "Stolen Bases," about the 2000 season of the Nashua Pride baseball team. His marriage for about a decade to the photographer, Nicole Symons, ended in divorce. He was a well-known panelist on the NPR quiz show, "Says You!" Surviving is his wife, Paula Lyons, longtime TV consumer reporter and also a "Says You!" panelist, whom he married in 1982.
Son of Ida Lubliner Reisman and Irwin Reisman, who ran a shoe store in Chicago before moving the family to work for an electronic parts business in Denver. He was editor of his high school newspaper, the "East High Spotlight" in Denver, and "The Justice" the student newspaper at Brandeis University. After earning a bachelor's degree in English from Brandeis and a master's from the Columbia University's School of Journalism, he worked as a freelance writer and then arts reporter and editor for the Patriot Ledger in Quincy. At 26, he became the executive editor for the alternative paper, Boston After Dark. Leaving in 1971, he moved into television at WGBH and WCVB, Channel 5, where he worked on "Chronicle" and was awarded regional Emmys. He wrote scripts at WCVB at the end of the 1970s for "Park Street Under," a locally produced sitcom set in a Boston bar, eerily predicting NBC's "Cheers." He was the co-director and co-writer of "The Powder & the Glory," a documentary about cosmetics pioneers and competitors, Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein. He co-wrote "The Other Side of the Moon," a 1990 documentary about Apollo astronauts, and he directed "Stolen Bases," about the 2000 season of the Nashua Pride baseball team. His marriage for about a decade to the photographer, Nicole Symons, ended in divorce. He was a well-known panelist on the NPR quiz show, "Says You!" Surviving is his wife, Paula Lyons, longtime TV consumer reporter and also a "Says You!" panelist, whom he married in 1982.
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Interment 8 October 2021.
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