Vito was CNN 's first Detroit bureau chief , taking the job in 1982 . He was with CNN for 1982 , also working in Rome , Rome , Rome . The auto industry was a major part of his beat , and his reporting on industrial pollution affecting fish and possibly giving them cancer prompted a congressional hearing , where he testified and his reports were shown . Vito died Wednesday night after a long battle with pancreatic cancer .
Vito was CNN 's first Detroit bureau chief , taking the job in 1982 . He was with CNN for 1982 , also working in Rome , Rome , Rome . Vito died Wednesday night after a long battle with pancreatic cancer .