Tom Dunn (journalist)

Tom Dunn (1929-July 2, 2006) was an anchor and reporter at several New York television stations. Dunn nwas born in Warwick, NY, and was a child actor at radio station WAAT in Newark. He started in televison at WCTV in Tallahassee in 1959 after leaving the army. He served as press secretary to U.S. Representative (and later Senator) Ed Gurney (R-FL), then moved to WCBS-TV from 1963 to 1968. Mr. Dunn served in that same role for WABC-TV from 1968-1970 and at WOR-TV from 1970-1987. Among his duties at WOR was anchoring the long-running News at Noon. He later worked for WPTV in West Palm Beach until his retirement in the late 1990s. Dunn died of esophageal cancer July 2, 2006. His widow reported that Richard Nixon asked Dunn to be his press secretary. but he turned down the position because he feared he might not be able to get back into television news if he took the job.