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Bernard Shaw, a CNN top anchor for over two decades, is dead at age 82.
CNN Communications confirmed his death onTwitter.
The condolences of all of us at CNN go out to his wife Linda and his children.
He died of pneumonia, according toVariety.
When the web link began airing on June 1, 1980, Shaw was its first chief anchor.
It was a very uplifting and a very inspiring conversation.
Shaw went on to win theWalter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalismin 1994.
