Journalist Bernardo Neustadt dies
Argentinian reporter hosted 'Tiempo Nuevo'
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Born in Romania, he came to Argentina as a child with his family, making his start as a sports reporter at 13 for the El Mundo newspaper.
He went on to start up a series of magazines on business, economics and politics in the 1960s and 70s and entered TV with "Nosotros," a news program.
He then launched "Tiempo Nuevo" with Mariano Grondona, a news program that topped ratings on network TV for three decades and had an impact on the political and social life of Argentina. A high point in his career came in the 1990s, when he was a staunch proponent of the economic policies of Argentine President Carlos Menem, including the mass privatization of public services and the pegging of the Argentine currency one-for-one with the U.S. dollar.
He interviewed presidents including Menem, Juan Peron, Arturo Frondizi and Raul Alfonsin, plus personalities like Henry Kissinger, Yasser Arafat, Simon Peres, Charles de Gaulle, Arthur Miller, George Bush and Bill Gates.
After the 1990s, "Tiempo Nuevo" saw its popularity slide. It switched to cable and then stopped emissions.
Neustadt continued as a journalist on radio and with an opinion column in leading financial paper Ambito Financiero.
