Bruce Johnson, WUSA anchor, and street-savvy reporter, dies at 71
Written by sidhanta
Written by sidhanta
Bruce Johnson, a Washington broadcast journalist and television personality for more than four decades known for his street-savvy coverage of local politics and urban affairs
The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Lori Smith-Johnson. In April 2018, Mr. Johnson ended his newscast announcing that he had non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Following the groundbreaking path set by Max Robinson and Jim Vance, Mr. Johnson was part of the second wave of Black journalists to appear on camera in major markets,
Washington’s CBS affiliate (then called WTOP, later WDVM and WUSA) that included Gordon Peterson, J.C.
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getting on-the-ground knowledge of those residents and taking their perspectives into account when asking pointed questions of city leaders.
Mr. Johnson was part of the second wave of Black journalists to appear on camera in major markets, spending 44 years at WUSA (Channel 9). In 1976,
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