Veteran newsman Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor who was at the center of every major story covered by the network in its first two decades, has died. He was 82.
Shaw died Wednesday of pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19, his family said in a Thursday statement to CNN.
The journalist was one of the first Black network anchors and his career at CNN spanned the time between the assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan and the 2000 election recount. Shaw remained at CNN until his contract expired in 2000, when he left to write his autobiography and spend more time with his family.
