BREAKING NEWS. NBC News is reporting that their Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert has suddenly died. Russert, the host of "Meet the Press," evidently died of a heart attack. We don't have a lot of details on Tim's death, but he was definitely a well respected journalist known for his unconventional "dumbed down" news reporting style. He was 58 years old. Timothy John Russert Jr. was born in Buffalo, N.Y., on May 7, 1950. He was a graduate of Canisius High School, John Carroll University and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Russert was a member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.