Bernard Shaw, the award-winning broadcast television journalist who served as chief anchor of CNN for two decades, died Wednesday, the head of the network confirmed in a statement. He was 82.

Bernard Shaw, the first D.C.-based prime-time anchor for fledgling CNN starting in 1980, has died at age 82. His family said it was pneumonia unrelated to COVID-19.

NEW YORK - Bernard Shaw, CNN’s chief anchor for two decades and a pioneering Black broadcaster best remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 as missiles flew around ...