BREAKING: Bernard Shaw, the award-winning broadcast television journalist who served as the chief anchor of CNN for two decades, has died at age 82.
Link copiedBernard Shaw, the award-winning broadcast television journalist who served as chief anchor of CNN for two decades, died Wednesday, his family said in a statement to the cable news network., instantly setting a standard of consummate professionalism and soon earning the trust of millions of viewers.
Shaw covered some of the landmark stories of the last three decades, including the student uprising in Tiananmen Square in 1989, the 1994 California earthquake, the death of Princess Diana in 1997 and the 2000 presidential race. Bernard Shaw was born on May 22, 1940, in Chicago to Edgar Shaw, a railroad employee and house painter, and Camilla Shaw, a housekeeper.
Shaw's professional journalism career started with a stint as a political reporter at CBS from 1971 to 1977. He then moved over to ABC, working as a Latin America correspondent from 1977 to 1979. He made a particular impression on viewers as an anchor on election nights and other major political events. He moderated the second presidential debate between George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis in the lead-up to the 1988 general election.
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