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IU researcher: Cronkite wasn’t 1st TV anchorman

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An Indiana University researcher says Walter Cronkite wasn’t the first television anchorman despite what most journalism history books might say.IU associate professor of journalism Mike Conway says the first TV anchorman wasn’t the CBS newsman but John Cameron Swayze, a regular on the NBC quiz show “Who Said That?”
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