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Robert MacNeil, Earnest News Anchor for PBS, Dies at 93

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. He was 93. His death, at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital, was confirmed by his daughter Alison MacNeil. Mr. MacNeil spent time at […]

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