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☆ Robert MacNeil, legendary PBS News anchor, dies at age 93
  + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Eva Rothenberg | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
New York CNN —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. 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. Arriving at PBS in the early 1970’s, MacNeil began a decades-long partnership with fellow journalist Jim Lehrer, according to PBS The two led PBS coverage of the Senate’s Watergate Hearings in 1973. In 1975, the pair co-founded the MacNeil/Lehrer Report, a show that would later become PBS NewsHour. MacNeil sat at the helm alongside Lehrer before leaving in 1995, according to PBS.
Persons: Robert MacNeil, MacNeil “, ” Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Jim Lehrer, MacNeil, John F, Kennedy, Lehrer, WETA, ”, “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, Longtime, PBS, NewsHour, NBC, WETA, Cuban Missile, MacNeil, Television, Writers ’ Conference Locations: New York, America, Montreal, Canada, Nova Scotia, London, Washington, DC, Dallas, WETA, United States
☆ Robert MacNeil, Earnest News Anchor for PBS, Dies at 93
  + stars: | 2024-04-12 | by ( Elizabeth Jensen | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
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 Friday in Manhattan. His death, at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, was confirmed by his daughter Alison MacNeil. But he came to reject the flashier style of the commercial American networks, and in 1971 he joined the fledgling Public Broadcasting Service. A pairing with Jim Lehrer in 1973 to cover the Senate Watergate hearings for PBS was unpopular with the operators of many local public stations, who thought the prime-time broadcasts weren’t appropriate evening fare. But the two men’s serious demeanor was a hit with viewers, and the broadcasts won an Emmy Award and eventually launched an enduring collaboration.
Persons: Robert MacNeil, The MacNeil, Lehrer, ”, Lehrer NewsHour, Alison MacNeil, Mr, MacNeil, John F, Kennedy, Jim Lehrer Organizations: PBS, – Presbyterian Hospital, NBC News, Public Broadcasting Service, BBC Locations: Canadian, Manhattan, Dallas
☆ Demetria Gallegos — News Editor at The Wall Street Journal
  + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Demetria Gallegos | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Demetria GallegosDemetria Gallegos is part of the Journal Reports team. Coverage areas include leadership, small business, wealth management, personal finance, retirement, health, technology, energy and WSJ's College Rankings. Previously, she wrote "The Juggle on Sunday," a column about family finances. Prior to The Journal, she worked at The Denver Post, 9News/KUSA in Denver and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. She attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and graduated from Columbia College.
Persons: Demetria Gallegos Demetria Gallegos, MacNeil, Lehrer NewsHour Organizations: Journal, WSJ's, The Denver Post, Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia College Locations: Denver
☆ Lewis Branscomb, Champion of Science Across Fields, Dies at 96
  + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Daniel E. Slotnik | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
As the Cold War was waning, the physicist Lewis Branscomb feared that America’s economic and scientific superiority was in jeopardy. Declining scientific literacy and critical thinking in American education, he believed, could have disastrous consequences for the country. Students, he told “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour” on PBS in 1986, “don’t need to know a lot of facts about science, but they really do need to understand how to think in the way scientists think — that is, in a problem-solving approach, given a complex environment within which to make decisions.”Whether in academia, private industry or government, Dr. Branscomb made it his job to push for the advancement of science and give it a bigger role in public policy. He held out hope for a brighter future through technology, but only if scientists and policymakers could get the public behind the idea. Dr. Branscomb, who worked at the nexus of science, technology, policy and business throughout his career, died on May 31 at a care facility in Redwood City, Calif., his son, Harvie, said.
Persons: Lewis Branscomb, “ The MacNeil, Lehrer, ”, Branscomb, Harvie Organizations: Students, PBS Locations: Redwood City, Calif
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