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Tonight when you tune in to the evening news, be sure to thank Frank Magid.
The original “news doctor” and founder of the Marion-based Frank N. Magid Associates died Friday morning. He was 78.
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After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Iowa, the Chicago native taught sociology at U of I and anthropology and statistics at Coe College before he founded his research and consultant firm in 1956.
When I started there, he told me he hoped that his firm could see what everyone else saw but thought what no one else thought, said Joe George, of Cedar Rapids, a former vice-president of marketing at Magids firm. More…