Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS NewsHour, has died at the age of 85.
Lehrer was the Washington correspondent for the half-hour Robert MacNeil Report, which began on PBS in 1975.
Lehrer moderated his first presidential debate in 1988 and was a frequent consensus choice for the task in subsequent presidential contests.
After MacNeil bowed out in 1995, it became The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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