Robert MacNeil, the Canadian-born journalist and author "who delivered sober evening newscasts for more than two decades on PBS" as co-anchor with Jim Lehrer of The MacNeil/Lehrer Report, later expanded as The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, died last month at age 93, the New York Times <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/business/media/robert-macneil-dead.html> reported.
MacNeil joined the fledgling PBS in 1971. "He brought with him a news sensibility honed at the BBC... and became a key figure in shaping U.S. public television