[W. Knight]

Robert MacNeil, one of the inaugural anchors behind PBS Newshour (then the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour), has died. His co-presenter, Lehrer, died back in 2020.
www.pbs.org 

Robert MacNeil, co-founder of NewsHour, dies at 93 | PBS NewsHour
MacNeil, a pioneer of public media journalism and a driving force behind the sho…
  Source: www.pbs.org

[lookoutwales]

MacNeil also had a four-year stint at the BBC around the turn of the 70s, working on Panorama - hence his role as a analyst to the 1970 general election night programme.