NEW YORK — Robert MacNeil, 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, for two decades, ...

Journalist Robert MacNeil, who co-founded the program that became the "PBS NewsHour," died April 12 at the age of 93. After the success of their 1973 gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Senate Watergate ...

Now, it is true that when we set up the - what was first called "The Robert MacNeil Report," later "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report," in a report. One of my considerations was to demonstrate to the public ...

Robert 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. News anchor Robert MacNeil, who cohosted “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” on PBS from 1975 to 1995, has died at 93. MacNeil created and ...

Correction: This segment misidentified Civil Rights activist Roy Wilkins as his nephew, Civil Rights leader Roger Wilkins. The transcript has been corrected. We ...

Robert MacNeil, a broadcast journalist who co-founded the weeknight news program that became PBS NewsHour, died Friday at the age of 93. MacNeil’s death was confirmed by his daughter, Alison MacNeil, ...

FILE - This Feb. 1978 photo shows Robert MacNeil, executive editor of "The MacNeil/Lehrer Report". MacNeil, who created the even-handed, no-frills PBS newscast “The MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour” in the ...

During his decades-long career, MacNeil reported on the Kennedy assassination, the Cuban missile crisis and the fall of the Berlin Wall. He died... Remembering Robert MacNeil, longtime host of PBS ...

NEW YORK — Robert MacNeil, 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, for two decades, ...