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Bernard Shaw, original CNN anchor and longtime contributor, dies at 82

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman, left, and Republican presidential candidate Dick Cheney, right, join moderator Bernard Shaw of CNN on stage for their debate at Centre College's Norton Center for the Arts in Danville, Kentucky, on Oct. 5, 2000.

Veteran newsman Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor who was at the center of every major story covered by the network in its first two decades, has died. He was 82.

Shaw died Wednesday of pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19, his family said in a Thursday statement to CNN.

The journalist was one of the first Black network anchors and his

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