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MacNeil created and co-anchored the no-frills PBS newscast "The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades.
Robert MacNeil, the Canadian-born journalist who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, died on Friday. He was 93.
A Canadian-born journalist who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS, Robert MacNeil was the co-anchor of “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report,” later expanded as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour."