[1] Chandler was hired by Variety as a music reporter, where he worked for several years, interrupted by service in the United States Army in Germany from 1951 to 1953, after which he covered radio and television upon his return.
[1] In 1963, Chandler was hired by CBS News as its director of information services.
He later served as vice president in charge of public affairs broadcasts, where he was an advocate of implementing Don Hewitt's proposed 60 Minutes format, in which several standalone segments would be broadcast rather than the standard documentary format in which the same subject was covered for the entire hour.
[1] While with CBS News, he was responsible for production of The People of South Vietnam: How They Feel About the War, a March 1967 documentary that he wrote and co-produced; 1966 National Driver’s Test in May 1966, for which he was executive producer; and the December 1971 Emmy Award-nominated CBS Reports: Under Surveillance on U.S. government surveillance of dissenters, which he produced.
Chandler died at age 80 on December 11, 2008, of heart failure at his home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.