Career
He was a Columbia Broadcasting System News correspondent for 35 years. As the second moderator for Face the Nation, he interviewed National as well as international world leaders. In 1960, the year he left his position on Face The Nation, he served as a panelists at the first televised presidential debate between Senator.
John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Chicago at the Columbia Broadcasting System studios of WBBM-TV-television He retired from television in 1975 and joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico, where he taught broadcast journalism until 1981.
Novins died of respiratory failure on December 7, 1989, in Middlebury, Vermont.
