The president of NBC News, who has overseen the ratings growth of that division, the success of its primetime newsmagazine "Dateline" and the start-up of MSNBC (the partnership between NBC and Microsoft), Andrew Lack cut his teeth in TV as a producer with CBS News on such shows as "60 Minutes" and "CBS Reports". After graduating from Boston University, he worked as a producer of TV commercials, for which he won three Clio Awards. Lack joined CBS News in 1976 as a producer for the short-lived "Who's Who" series. The next year, he moved on to "60 Minutes" and from 1978 until 1985, produced "CBS