The Newsroom

Anchoring On Location

(June 2005)

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JU
juice
As far as I know, there was only CNN's Bernie Shaw, and two other editors, one of which tragically died a few years later in a road accident.

CNN replay the coverage from time to time in specials generally celebrating CNN's 'outstanding' news gathering team.

They were the only ones on air the night that the attacks began on Baghdad.
CA
cat
It was Bernard Shaw, John Holliman, and Peter Arnett. I'm quite sure that Holliman and Arnett were reporters, not editors.

Shaw retired from CNN a few years ago, but very occasionally has been known to reappear. He was actually doing a phone two-way not so long ago, when the White House was evacuated and he was in the area. He phoned into CNN and did one of the first reports.

Holliman was still working for CNN when he died in a car accident in the mid-late 90s, and was one of their top correspondents.

Arnett worked for CNN until, I think 1998, and the 'Operation Tailwind' special that CNN broadcast, about the US use of nerve gas in the Vietnam war. CNN put the programme out, it caused an absolute storm, the Pentagon denied all knowledge, fired all sorts of comments at Arnett and CNN, and the idiots in Atlanta decided to back down and withdraw the story. They sacked the producer of the programme, and Arnett was kept on but never given any assignments, so quit.

It transpired, a few years later, that the CNN report was in fact entirely accurate.

Arnett was working for MSNBC/National Geographic in the last Iraq war, then went on Iraqi telly to say that America was fighting a bad war, so NBC sacked him. Not sure what he's doing now.

I'm pretty sure that's all accurate -- it's all from my memory!
JW
JamesWorldNews
I recall Sandy Gall anchoring a single edition of News at Ten from Kuwait during the first Gulf War, but don't think it was live.

Lyse Doucet is currently in the Lebanon anchoring BBC World News for the elections.
NE
News24
Chris Eakin out all day today in Yorkshire covering the flash floods for News 24

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