Shaw was a former U.S. Marine who worked as a reporter at CBS and ABC News before taking on the chief anchor role at CNN when the network began in 1980.
Bernard Shaw, a former CNN anchor, died Wednesday of pneumonia unrelated to Covid-19, his family said in a statement Thursday. Shaw was 82 years old.
Why did Bernard Shaw leave CNN?
Shaw, a 20-year veteran of CNN, said he would leave the network early next year to write books and spend more time with his family
Shaw co-anchored CNN’s Inside Politics from 1992 until he retired from CNN in 2001. He has still occasionally appeared on CNN, including in May 2005 when a plane flew into restricted air space in Washington, D.C. He also co-anchored Judy Woodruff’s last broadcast on CNN in June 2005.
He exhibited a passionate interest in the print media, clipping articles from newspapers, and often traveled on weekends to Washington, D.C. He cultivated an acquaintance with Walter Cronkite and had an interest in baseball.