Mr. Adler left WCBS in 1981 for another New York radio station, WOR-AM (710), and later worked at the Atlanta all-news station WCNN-AM. Mr. Adler liked to work on The New York Times’s crossword puzzle, and one of the ways he evaluated job applicants was by asking if they knew the name of The Times’s crossword editor, said Larry Kanter, a news anchor at WINS in New York who worked with Mr. Adler in Atlanta. As a news director, Mr. Adler was aware of the popularity of television and the pressures radio faced. In the 1980s, Mr. Adler was president of the Radio-Television News Directors Association (now the Radio Television Digital News Association). For decades he hosted the syndicated radio show “Medical Journal,” which he produced with his wife, the former Thalia Bergamini.

Source: New York Times December 24, 2017 21:56 UTC