Bernard Shaw is CNN's principal Washington anchor. He co-anchors Inside Politics, the nation's only daily program devoted exclusively to political news, airing weekdays from 4 - 4:30 p.m. and 8:30 - 9 p.m. (ET) with Judy Woodruff. Shaw and Woodruff are CNNs main Campaign USA 96 anchor team. Both are also Washington co- anchors, along with London Anchor Hilary Bowker, of CNN WorldView, an hour-long international newscast that examines the major stories and issues around the world airing weekdays from 6 - 7 p.m. (ET). Shaw also anchors much of the network's special events coverage.
Since Shaw joined CNN in 1980, he has covered major political events, including primaries, party conventions, debates, and national election nights. In February 1992, he moderated the third Democratic presidential candidates' debate, held just two days before the nation's first presidential primary in Manchester, N.H.. He was moderator of the second presidential debate held during October 1988 in Los Angeles and he was co-moderator of the April 1988 debate among Democratic presidential candidates on the eve of the New York primary.
On January 16, 1991, he was one of three CNN reporters who captivated a worldwide audience of more than one billion with continuous live coverage of the first night of the Allied Forces' bombing of Baghdad during "Operation Desert Storm." As a result of that unprecedented coverage, Shaw has received numerous international awards. He received the CableAce for Best Newscaster of the Year in 1991 and the 1990 George Foster Peabody Broadcasting Award for distinguished services. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) presented him with its 1991 Chairman's Award for Outstanding Journalistic Excellence in January 1992. In 1995, Shaw was elected a fellow in the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi, the highest distinction the Society gives to journalists.
In July 1993, Shaw anchored CNNs live coverage of President Clintons first economic summit from Tokyo. He previously anchored on-site all of the Bush-Gorbachev/Yeltsin summits -- from Helsinki, Malta and Moscow to Washington, DC. He also anchored from Red Square in Moscow during the 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1990.
Before covering the 40th anniversary NATO Summit in May 1989, in Brussels, Shaw had just finished 30 hours of live coverage of the historic student demonstrations in the heart of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China for which he was awarded the 1990 CableAce for Best News Anchor and the 1989 National Association of Television Arts and Sciences' News and Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Coverage of a Single Breaking News Story. In 1994, Shaw was honored with the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1991, he received the David Brinkley Award for Excellence in Communication.
Shaw has been an anchor with CNN since the network's inception in 1980. Previously, he was with ABC News as senior Capitol Hill correspondent, reporting extensively on the economy. From 1971 - 1977, Shaw was a correspondent in the Washington Bureau of CBS News. Before joining CBS, he served as a reporter for Westinghouse Broadcast Companys Group W, based first in Chicago, and later in Washington, as White House correspondent. Shaw studied history at the University of Illinois.