R.I.P.: Tom Foty, Longtime CBS Radio Anchor Dies at 77

Longtime CBS News Radio Washington anchor and reporter Tom Foty (right) died Tuesday at the age of 77.

WTOP reports Foty was a mainstay for CBS News starting in 1998, covering everything from government affairs to international news, according to his colleague Peter King.

“He managed UPI’s Washington bureau, then he became its executive editor,” King said of Foty’s career trajectory.

“But he also parachuted into breaking stories like The Peoples Temple mass suicide in Guyana, and the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.”

Foty is remembered by colleagues as a “super utility player,” reporting and anchoring whenever needed, with precision and grace.

“It’s impossible to count the ways we’ll miss him,” King said.