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Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil OC (January 19, 1931 – April 12, 2024), often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. [ 1 ]
PBS News Hour, previously stylized as PBS NewsHour, is the news division of PBS and an American daily evening television news program broadcast on over 350 PBS member stations since October 20, 1975. It airs seven nights a week, and is known for its in-depth coverage of issues and current events.
Robert MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades ...
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.
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McNeil was born on 19 March 1942 [2] in Wellington to parents Neil and Jean McNeil, and his childhood was spent in Saint Bathans, Ōkato, Waipukurau, and Hāwera. After leaving school, he first worked for the Taranaki Daily News in New Plymouth, but because of rugby commitments, left to work in a dairy factory for a year. He then studied at ...
Do You Speak American? is a documentary film and accompanying book about journalist Robert MacNeil's investigation into how different people throughout the United States of America speak. The book and documentary look at the evolution of America's way of speaking from the English language to various ways of speaking in regions throughout the ...
MacNeil is the founding anchor of "PBS NewsHour," which he launched as "The Robert MacNeil Report." He also covered the JFK assassination for NBC. Robert MacNeil, the stately journalist who ...