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John William Chancellor (July 14, 1927 – July 12, 1996) was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in television news. [2] Chancellor served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993.
Jul 13, 1996 · John Chancellor, the venerated stalwart of NBC television news for 43 years who intoned the world’s daily happenings from an anchor chair, then moved on to analyze and interpret events as the...
Jul 13, 1996 · John Chancellor, the Chicago-born pioneer of television journalism who brought Midwestern forthrightness and a reassuring manner to reporting, anchoring and wide-ranging commentary,...
Jul 19, 2024 · John Chancellor was the anchor of NBC Nightly News for the first 12 years of its existence — 1970 until 1982. He continued to provide commentary on the broadcast until 1993, when he...
Jul 13, 1996 · John Chancellor, who covered 20 political conventions, a dozen space shots and a handful of wars in 41 years at NBC News, died yesterday at his home in Princeton, N.J. He was 68. The cause was...
Jul 13, 1996 · WASHINGTON — John Chancellor, whose urbane style graced the NBC network news for more than 40 years as reporter, foreign correspondent, anchorman and commentator, died yesterday at his...
Nov 15, 2017 · Chancellor served as White House correspondent from 1963 to 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson pressed him to succeed Edward R. Murrow as Director of the Voice of America. Two years later, he returned to NBC.