Bernard Shaw

2022 - 9 - 8

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Bernard Shaw, Iconic CNN Anchor, Dies At 82 (Variety)

“Bernie was a CNN original and was our Washington Anchor when we launched on June 1^st, 1980. He was our lead anchor for the next twenty years from anchoring ...

He wrapped his career for CNN by moderating the long-running program “Inside Politics” between 1992 and 2001, when he retired from CNN. At CNN, Shaw was co-anchor of “PrimeNews,” the network’s evening broadcast, and among the first big events he helped present was the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. “The more intense the news story I cover, the cooler I want to be. But his time at CNN helped launch a new era in the business, one in which a cable upstart could have as much meaning to news aficionados as established newspapers and broadcasters. He worked for CBS News as a Washington correspondent between 1971 and 1977 and covered both Latin America and Capitol Hill for ABC News in the latter part of that decade. [Bernard Shaw](https://variety.com/t/bernard-shaw/), who was [CNN](https://variety.com/t/cnn/)’s lead anchor for 20 years and distinguished the network’s coverage of such landmark events as the Gulf War, died Wednesday, the Warner Bros.

CNN anchor Bernard Shaw dead at 82 (CNN)

Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw died Wednesday of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, Shaw's family announced in a statement Thursday. Shaw was 82.

He always could be trusted as a reporter and as an anchor,” Johnson said. The Shaw family requests complete privacy at this time,” the family said in their statement provided by former CNN CEO Tom Johnson. The condolences of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.”

Bernard Shaw Dies: First Chief Anchor At CNN's Launch Was 82 (Deadline)

Bernard Shaw, the first chief anchor for CNN who helped lead breaking news coverage for more than 20 years, has died. Shaw died Wednesday of pneumonia ...

Reflecting on his career in an interview with NPR in 2014, Shaw said, “The more intense the news story I cover, the cooler I want to be. According to the network, funeral services will be closed to family and invited guests, with plans for a public memorial at a later date. The condolences of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.” CNN beat its broadcast competition in reporting on the outbreak of the war. By 1988, Shaw moderated a presidential debate, but drew some controversy when he posed a hypothetical question to Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis that referred to the rape and murder of his wife. From CNN’s launch on June 1, 1980, Shaw delivered to viewers breaking news in a warm voice and matter-of-fact style, helping the upstart 24-hour news network gain stature against its broadcast rivals.

Bernard Shaw, longtime CNN anchor, has died at 82 (NPR)

During the era that many viewers learned to watch CNN during breaking news, Shaw was its first chief anchor, reporting on stories from the shooting of ...

The more intense the news story I cover, the cooler I want to be. And it would be a disservice to the consumers of news — be they readers, listeners or viewers — for me to become emotional and to get carried away." Shaw was born May 22, 1940, and grew up in Chicago, and attended the University of Illinois at Chicago before joining the Marines.

Bernard Shaw, unflappable founding anchor at CNN, dies at 82 (The Washington Post)

A stalwart presence on the 24-hour news network for two decades, he helped elevate CNN to global prominence with his riveting coverage from Baghdad during ...

As a teenager, Mr. [untold sacrifices](https://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336538635/former-cnn-anchor-bernard-shaw-kept-cool-but-paid-the-price-of-success)” his family had made for his work and the milestones in his children’s lives that he had missed. “When I looked up at the anchor booths,” Mr. He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1959 and, while stationed in Hawaii in 1961, learned that Cronkite was coming to Honolulu for a story. “The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated,” Mr. “I’ve never been there,” Mr. The interview fell through, and Mr. Shaw perched by the window in a ninth-floor room at the Al-Rashid Hotel in Baghdad to witness the blaze of antiaircraft fire as the Persian Gulf War erupted. “Goodbye from Beijing,” he said, signing off as the government cut live transmissions and he was forced to phone in further reports. The job seemed risky at best when Mr. Restless for an anchor job, Mr. Murrow and Walter Cronkite — Mr.

Bernard Shaw, CNN's chief anchor for 20 years, dies at 82 (NBC News)

Bernard Shaw, the award-winning broadcast television journalist who served as chief anchor of CNN for two decades, died on Wednesday.

Shaw raised eyebrows with his first question to Dukakis, who was then the Democratic governor of Massachusetts. Bush and Michael Dukakis in the lead-up to the 1988 general election. CNN, as it came to be known, helped to fundamentally change the format and pace of TV news. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree in history in 1966. He aspired to a career in journalism at a young age. Shaw was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame (1999) and received two lifetime achievements honors, from the Edward R.

Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw dead at 82 (Los Angeles Times)

Veteran newsman Bernard Shaw, who helped launch CNN as its first anchor in 1980, has died at 82.

“I’m a child of democracy,” Shaw would later say in a CNN interview. But Shaw later said he suffered post-traumatic stress disorder from his time in Baghdad. Shaw was among the three CNN journalists who reported live from Baghdad during the U.S. Shaw was part of the team that covered the Watergate scandal for CBS News in Washington and jumped to ABC News in 1977. “He was never trying to get ahead of the story. He was not trying to say more than he knew.”

Bernard Shaw, CNN's Lead Anchor for 20 Years, Dies at 82 (The New York Times)

He covered the gulf war and the protests in Tiananmen Square and became one of the first Black anchors of a prime-time network news program.

Blitzer said, “and he said, ‘It was a huge news story, so we stayed.’” Known for his steadying influence at the anchor desk and from the field, Mr. When the gulf war began in January 1991, Mr.

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