Robert MacNeil, Longtime PBS ‘NewsHour’ Anchor, Dies at 93
variety.comJack Dunn Robert “Robin” MacNeil, co-anchor and co-founder of PBS NewsHour, died April 12, PBS announced. He was 93 MacNeil died Friday morning of natural causes at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, his daughter, Alison MacNeil, told the New York Times.
Following their coverage of the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings, MacNeil co-founded the predecessor to the PBS “MacNeil/Lehrer Report” in 1975 with fellow anchor Jim Lehrer. “I am so deeply saddened at the loss of a precious friend.
One of the greatest honors of my life was working with Robin MacNeil and being part of the way he and Jim Lehrer changed television news,” said Judy Woodruff, PBS NewsHour senior correspondent and former anchor and managing editor, in a statement. “He was brilliant and urbane, but always with a delightful sense of irony.
I’m so grateful to have spoken with him in January on his birthday, when that iconic, deep Canadian baritone voice sounded exactly as it had when he last anchored the NewsHour almost 30 years ago.” “Robin was one of a kind.
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