He served as the moderator of the 1992 vice presidential debate between Dan Quayle, Al Gore, and James Stockdale.
[2][3] Bruno launched his professional career as a reporter for Chicago area newspapers and news agencies.
[4] He joined The Chicago American in 1954[4] In 1956, Bruno earned a Fulbright Scholarship in India to study Indian media.
[4] Bruno covered some of the biggest news stories of the 1950s, including the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Our Lady of the Angels School fire in 1958, and the Cuban revolution in 1959.
[2] Colleagues, such as Donaldson, have described Bruno as personally knowing nearly every major party county chairman in the United States.
[2] While much of his work at ABC took place off-screen, Bruno was invited onto news and talk shows owing to his political expertise.
[1][5] Bruno received public attention as the moderator of the 1992 vice presidential debate in Atlanta on October 13, 1992.
"[2][3] Bruno also scolded the debate's audience when they jeered candidates Quayle and Gore, saying, "There’s no call for that ... so knock that off.
[3] In 2008, he authored a column for Firehouse about the https://www.firehouse.com/prevention-investigation/fire-protection-systems/news/10493645/eyewitness-to-tragedy-our-lady-of-angels-school-fire that he responded to with the Chicago Fire Department and later put on his reporter's hat to cover.
[3] Bruno died at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, November 8, 2011, of heart arrhythmia caused by a fall at the age of 83.