Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor, dies aged 82

Bernard Shaw in his office at CNN’s Washington bureau in 2001 (Alex Brandon/AP)

Bernard Shaw, CNN’s first chief anchor and a pioneering black journalist remembered for calmly reporting the beginning of the Gulf War in 1991 from Baghdad as it was under attack, has died aged 82.

He died of pneumonia, unrelated to Covid-19, on Wednesday at a hospital in Washington, according to Tom Johnson, CNN’s former chief executive.