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The veteran broadcast television journalist was CNN's first chief anchor, a position that earned him the trust of millions of viewers across the country.

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. He attended the University of Illinois at Chicago, receiving a bachelor's degree in history in 1966. CNN, as it came to be known, helped to fundamentally change the format and pace of TV news. 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.

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.

Trailblazing Black news anchor chronicled iconic moments in history from Tiananmen Square to the first Gulf war.

He was later a US Marine, earned a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Illinois Chicago and translated his insatiable consumption of the news into a job as a reporter and anchor at a local television station in his hometown. Shaw’s family said they were planning a private funeral but intended to host a public memorial at a later time. For a time, Shaw was the only Black journalist anchoring the evening news on a major network, inspiring other Black journalists who entered the industry. In a separate statement, CNN chairman Chris Licht expressed condolences to Shaw’s wife, Linda, and their two children. He reported on some of the biggest news stories from that era, including China’s deadly quelling of the Tiananmen Square student revolt in 1989, the first Gulf war in 1991 for which he went to Baghdad to report, and the 2000 presidential election, won by George W Bush following a controversial US supreme court ruling. “Globally, you are an island speck in an ocean of color.

L'ancien journaliste de la chaîne américaine CNN Bernard Shaw est décédé mercredi à l'âge de 82 ans, a annoncé sa famille.

Plusieurs téléspectateurs se souviennent de son calme olympien lorsqu'il couvrait la guerre du Golfe en 1991, tandis que des missiles volaient autour de lui à ...

Shaw, un ancien militaire de la Marine américaine, avait travaillé chez CBS et ABC avant de devenir présentateur de nouvelles à CNN en 1980. Bernard Shaw, un présentateur de nouvelles pendant deux décennies à CNN, est décédé hier à l’âge de 82 ans. Plusieurs téléspectateurs se souviennent de son calme olympien lorsqu’il couvrait la guerre du Golfe en 1991, tandis que des missiles volaient autour de lui à Bagdad.

NEW YORK (AP) — Bernard Shaw, CNN's chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcast best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the ...

Because of all the things he missed with his family while working, he told NPR that “I don't think it was worth it.” “I was going to give him five begrudging minutes and ended up talking to him for a half hour. “He was the most persistent guy I've ever met in my life,” the late Cronkite told the Washington Post in 1991. As a member of the U.S. “And I personally feel that I passed my stringent test for that in Baghdad.” Bush and Michael Dukakis, he asked the Democrat — a death penalty opponent — whether he would support that penalty for someone found guilty of raping and murdering Dukakis' wife Kitty.

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.

For years, Apple touted its products under its "Think Different" tagline. It's classic late-90s, early-aughts Steve Jobs energy.

The three-square-meals model is now something of a relic of the Industrial Revolution. Pour in some cold water, let the milk rehydrate, and voila. There was still a bit of that spirit, sure, but it was hard to ignore the darker message that not only do Apple products save lives, not having Apple products could be fatal. The somewhat cynical reality here is that Apple products are top shelf, and inflation is eating into people's disposable incomes. (OK, most nights — we believe in a four-day work week around here.) For better or worse, the 2020s are gonna be all about snacks. Before flavored seltzer took over the world, there was Fresca, the grapefruity, not-too-sweet, diet-but-not-diet drink. The Chevrolet Equinox EV will have The new iPhone features, as we wrote here yesterday, were few and far between. For the uninitiated, Fresca is pretty much perfect, yet perplexingly less prominent than other zero-calorie sodas. The iPhone 14 isn't so different from its predecessor. In a three-minute video, Apple positions itself as a lifesaver in a crisis.

Chris Licht, CNN Chairman and CEO said in a statement on Thursday that Bernard Shaw, CNN's beloved anchor, and his colleague, passed away at 82.

He said that the legacy Shaw left behind will live on through his work. Turner paid condolences to the Shaw family in a statement on Thursday evening. Turner said Bernie was one of the most respected journalists in the country. CNN was the first television news network in the world to run 24x7. His former colleagues felt this was a crazy move; however, Shaw thought it was the last frontier in network television news. Johnson expressed his grief on the passing away of his personal friend and colleague for more than 55 years. He was the first African American journalist to moderate a presidential debate. He was the first chief anchor and started with CNN when it was first launched on 1st June 1980. His style of journalism was fearless and independent. During his career, Shaw covered the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. In 1991, Shaw covered the Gulf War live, the first in television history. [CNN](/topic/cnn), died of pneumonia at a hospital in Washington, DC, his family announced on Thursday.

Shaw's work during the first Gulf War was instrumental in CNN making a name for itself in the news industry.

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