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Everything about News Anchor totally explainedA 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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