Robert MacNeil leaves a memorial ceremony for Walter Cronkite on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 at Avery Fisher Hall in New York.
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. in the 1970s and co-anchored the show with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93.
He worked at CBC as a radio and television host during the early and mid-1950s, including a stint as host of the weekly children's showMacNeil then moved to London to work with Reuters. He later switched to TV news and moved to the United States in the 1960s. It was MacNeil's and Lehrer's disenchantment with the style and content of rival news programs on ABC, CBS and NBC that led to the program's creation.
"It was a way to do something that seemed to be needed journalistically and yet was different from what the commercial network news were doing," he said."Writing is much more personal. It is not collaborative in the way that television must be," MacNeil told The Associated Press in 1995. "But when you're sitting down writing a novel, it's just you: Here's what I think, here's what I want to do. And it's me.
A Feb. 1978 photo shows Robert MacNeil, then executive editor of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report. MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour in the 1970s and co-anchored the show for with his late partner, Jim Lehrer, for two decades, died on Friday. He was 93.
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