Mort Crim is an author and former broadcast journalist. Crim was born July 31, 1935 (1935-07-31) (age 74). Crim retired from anchoring TV newscasts at WDIV-TV Detroit in 1996. He also anchored at WHAS-TV in Louisville, KYW-TV in Philadelphia and WBBM-TV in Chicago. Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News president Roone Arledge to be a co-anchor for ABC's World News Tonight newscast in 1978. In 1984 he hosted a technology program on PBS, New Tech Times. Crim is also a founder of a Detroit area video-production company, Mort Crim Communications, Inc. Crim is currently working for Majic Windows Company in Michigan, and has been featured in television commercials for that company.

Crim anchored the American Information Network (ABC) program "News Around The World" in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as well as many other hourly newscasts.

In addition to his anchoring duties, Mort Crim also has four syndicated editorial and news features for radio: One Moment Please (originally a television feature), News You'll Care About (a five-minute news summary), Second Thoughts and American Spirit. He was also previously a substitute anchor for Paul Harvey's daily radio programs.

Crim contributed an intro monologue to The White Stripes' song "Little Acorns," off their 2003 album Elephant.

Crim read the eulogy at news colleague Jessica Savitch's memorial service, following her 1983 death.

In February 2007, Crim was diagnosed with colon cancer. ^[1] According to his doctors at Mayo Clinic, the cancer was caught early and Crim has since made a full recovery.

[edit] Mort Crim in pop culture

Doug Fraser's graphic novel Mort Grim may have been named after Mort Crim.^{[citation needed]}

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• Mort Crim Communications
• 93 KHJ (American Samoa): Bio of Mort Crim

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