Richard Cohen, the journalist husband of broadcaster Meredith Vieira, has died at 76, more than 50 years after an MS diagnosis. He also beat colon cancer twice.

Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was ultimately derailed by the devastating effects of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in his best-selling memoirs, died Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a village in the Westchester County. He was 76.