> Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else?

> Wikipedia describes Lake as having been an "evening anchor" for most of three decades. Doesn't that mean that she largely read news gathered by somebody else? (And yes, I do apply the same criteria to Dan Rather and his predecessors.) No; the UK "newsreader" has never really had a US equivalent, because the US has never had in-vision continuity which is where UK newsreaders typically came from. Anyone on camera on US television news has in-field reporting/production experience.