News anchor Robert McNeil, who co-hosted “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” on PBS
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.
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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Robert MacNeil, whose coverage of the Watergate scandal led to the first nightly newscast for PBS, died Friday in Manhattan after a long illness. He was 93. A PBS representative confirmed MacNeil's death. MacNeil was the founding anchor of "PBS NewsHour," which was first launched in 1975 as "The Robert MacNeil Report" and later renamed "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour." In the years before cable news and the internet, the program was the lone national TV alternative to the newscasts on ABC, CBS and...