Bernard Shaw, the longtime lead anchor of CNN and an original member of the news network, died Wednesday at age 82. The veteran newsman died following a battle with pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19, his family said Thursday, according to CNN. “Bernie was a CNN original and was our Washington Anchor when we launched on June 1, 1980,” Chris Licht, CEO of CNN, said in a statement. “He was our lead anchor the next twenty years from anchoring coverage of presidential elections to his iconic coverage of the First Gulf War live from Baghdad in 1991.” Shaw was the first-ever lead anchor for CNN who co-...

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