According to the Huffington Post and the NY Times, Tim Russert has died at the age of 58 of a heart attack. Russert is most notably known for being the host of Meet The Press on NBC.

Russert apparently suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed at the NBC Washington bureau according to sources.

MSNBC is now breaking some of the further details. You can read Tim Russert’s bio here.

Certainly a sad loss for the media and political world. I enjoyed watching MTP every single Sunday and always looked forward to Tim asking the tough questions, when nobody else would. Thoughts go out to the entire Russert family.