Robert MacNeil, Longtime PBS News Anchor, Dies at 93
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Robert MacNeil, earnest news anchor for PBS, dies at 93
Robert MacNeil, the Canadian-born journalist who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS as the co-anchor of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” later expanded as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” died early today in Manhattan. He was 93.
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Robert MacNeil, legendary PBS News anchor, dies at age 93
Longtime broadcast journalist Robert MacNeil, who covered some of the biggest headlines of the 20th century and co-anchored PBS nightly news for two decades, died on Friday, PBS announced. He was 93. MacNeil “was an incredibly erudite reporter, anchor and writer who raised the bar for serious journalism in America,” Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president of NewsHour Productions, said Friday in a news release. “Principled, incisive and tenacious, he and Jim Lehrer set the high standards for NewsHour...
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