CBS News executive who contracted the coronavirus dies
by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times
Mar 29, 2020
1 minute
CBS News veteran Maria Mercader has died from complications of COVID-19, the first media executive to die as a result of the pandemic.
The network confirmed that Mercader, 54, died Sunday in a New York hospital. A former producer who spent
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