[1][2] In his capacity as vice president, Reinhardt helped to hire most of CNN's first 200 employees, including the cable network's first news anchor, Bernard Shaw.
[1] He served as a combat cameraman with the United States Army's pictorial service in the Pacific theater during World War II.
[1] He next served as Paramount Pictures' executive vice president of the "non-theatrical and educational film division."
[1] As president, Reinhardt oversaw the creation of several of CNN's most prominent shows, including Larry King Live, which aired from 1985 to 2011, and Crossfire.
[1] Reinhardt also expanded much of CNN infrastructure, including the establishment of approximately twenty news bureaux around the world.
[1] The move allowed CNN to unexpectedly broadcast the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster live on television in January 1986.