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A news presenter is, broadly speaking, a person that presents a news show on television, radio or the Internet. The term isn't commonly used by people in the industry as they tend to use more descriptive, and sometimes country-specific, terms. Examples include "newsreader", "newscaster", and "news anchor".

Different roles

Newscaster

A newscaster is a presenter of a news bulletin who is himself or herself a working journalist and news gatherer, and a participant in compiling the script to be delivered in a news bulletin.
   Prior to the television era, radio news broadcasts often mixed news with opinion and each presenter strove for a distinctive style. These presenters were referred to as commentators. The last remaining news presenter of this type is Paul Harvey. The term newscaster came into common use to distinguish presenters of straight news broadcasts from commentators.
   However in the UK, ITN's presenters are referred to as newscasters (and have been since the 1950s), whilst those working at the BBC are called newsreaders.

News anchor

In the United States and Canada, presenters of news broadcasts are referred to as news anchors (sometimes anchorperson, anchorman, or anchorwoman) instead of "newscasters". An anchor traditionally is a television personality who presents material prepared for a news program and at times must improvise commentary for live presentation. Many news anchors are also involved in writing and/or editing the news for their programmes.
   The term "anchor" was coined by producer Don Hewitt. PBS cites its first usage as being on July 7, 1952 to describe Walter Cronkite's role at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions. According to Hewitt, the term was in reference to the "anchor leg" of a relay race.

Notable news presenters

American news anchors

  • John Stossel-20/20
  • Bill Ritter-WABC
  • Kent Shocknek-KCBS
  • Carol Marin -WBBM
  • Jim Jensen-Former WCBS (deceased)
  • Bree Walker-Former KGTV KCBS AND WCBS
  • Rudi Bakhtiar, formerly at CNN and last seen as Fox News as a correspondent
  • Bill Bonds, formerly of WXYZ, WABC and KABC
  • Bill Beutel (deceased), WABC-TV formerly ABC News
  • Ed Bradley (deceased), CBS News
  • David Brinkley (deceased), The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC)
  • Tom Brokaw (semi-retired), NBC News
  • Wolf Blitzer, CNN
  • Aaron Brown, formerly at CNN and ABC News
  • John Chancellor (deceased), NBC Nightly News
  • Connie Chung
  • Amanda Congdon, Rocketboom
  • Anderson Cooper, CNN
  • Katie Couric, CBS News, formerly of NBC's Today Show
  • Walter Cronkite (retired), CBS News
  • John Charles Daly (deceased) ABC News
  • Ann Curry, The Today Show, Dateline NBC
  • Sam Donaldson, ABC News
  • Lou Dobbs, CNN
  • Hugh Downs (retired), ABC News' 20/20, formerly at NBC News
  • Douglas Edwards (deceased), CBS News, 1950s
  • Hal Fishman KTLA-TV
  • Dave Garroway (deceased), "Today Show" NBC
  • Charles Gibson, ABC News
  • John Gibson, FOX News
  • Calvin Hughes,WPLG Local 10
  • Nancy Grace, CNN
  • Enrique Gratas, Univision
  • Roger Grimsby (deceased) formerly of WABC-TV, KGO-TV and WNBC
  • Bryant Gumbel, former anchor of NBC's Today Show and CBS' The Early Show
  • Brit Hume, FOX News formerly ABC News
  • Chet Huntley (deceased), The Huntley-Brinkley Report (NBC)
  • Chris Jansing, MSNBC
  • Peter Jennings (deceased), ABC News
  • Ted Koppel, ABC News, Nightline, Discovery Channel
  • Nicole Lapin (News Anchor), CNN, CNN Pipeline, Headline News
  • Jim Lehrer, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer (PBS)
  • Dan Lewis, KOMO-TV News
  • Frank McGee (deceased), NBC News
  • Robert MacNeil (retired), The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour (PBS)
  • Roger Mudd, CBS News, NBC News, History Channel
  • Edward R. Murrow (deceased)
  • Keith Olbermann, MSNBC
  • Bill O'Reilly, FOX News
  • Jane Pauley (retired), NBC News
  • Stone Phillips, Dateline NBC
  • Harry Reasoner (deceased), CBS News and ABC News
  • Frank Reynolds (deceased), ABC News
  • Dan Rather (retired), CBS News
  • John Roberts (television reporter), CBS News, CNN
  • Robin Roberts, ABC News
  • Max Robinson (deceased), ABC News
  • Tim Russert, NBC News
  • Al Sanders (deceased), WJZ-TV
  • Jessica Savitch (deceased), NBC News and Frontline (PBS)
  • Diane Sawyer, ABC News
  • Bernard Shaw (retired), CNN
  • Bob Schieffer, CBS News
  • Maria Shriver (on leave of absence), NBC News
  • Howard K. Smith (deceased), ABC News previously at CBS News
  • Shepard Smith, FOX News
  • Jerry Turner (deceased), WJZ-TV
  • Garrick Utley, CNN formerly NBC News and later ABC News
  • Lori Stokes, WABC
  • Julie pearce, KBJR KDLH Northland's NewsCenter
  • Sade Baderinwa, WABC
  • Elizabeth Vargas, ABC News
  • Chris Wallace, Fox News formerly at NBC News and later ABC News
  • Mike Wallace (retired), "60 Minutes" CBS
  • Barbara Walters, ABC News
  • Lee Webb, Christian Broadcasting Network
  • Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News
  • Cindy Williams, WCSH
  • Bob Woodruff (on extended absence), ABC News (Bob Woodruff and Judy Woodruff are not related).
  • Judy Woodruff (retired), Frontline (PBS) and CNN
  • Paula Zahn, CNN
  • Dara Brown, MSNBC ====

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