New York CNN —David Bohrman, a former veteran CNN producer and executive who pioneered the use of the “Magic Wall,” died Sunday following complications after hip surgery, according to his family.
He joined CNN in 1998 and later became the network’s Washington bureau chief and senior vice president.
In 2004, it was his idea to anchor CNN’s election coverage from the floor of party conventions.
Four years later, he implemented the Magic Wall, a touchscreen display featuring up-to-date voting data on election nights, which is now a staple of CNN’s election coverage and commonly used by other broadcasters.
“His decision to take then just emerging touch-screen technology and integrate [it] into our 2008 election coverage was nothing short of revolutionary.
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