By Ian Burrell

According to the Vice News supremo Josh Tyrangiel, the time of the television news anchor is over.

And he may be right. The legendary Walter Kronkite of CBS, whose words once held a nation in thrall, is long dead. So too is Peter Jennings of ABC, while Dan Rather of CBS and NBC’s Tom Brokaw have retired from fronting bulletins and Katie Couric has been sidelined into online news. In today’s all-consuming media environment, the anchors on the biggest UK bulletins lack the stature of past greats such as Alastair Burnet, Trevor McDonald and Jeremy Paxman.

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Source: The Drum