Walter Cronkite came to a hotel in Waikiki near where Shaw was stationed in Hawaii. “I called the hotel 34 times,” Shaw later recalled to NPR, saying he talked to Kronkite for 40 minutes. “It was a very uplifting and a very inspiring conversation.” Shaw went on to win the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism in 1994.
Shaw co-anchored CNN’s Inside Politics from 1992 until he retired from CNN in March 2001. He then occasionally appeared on CNN, including in May 2005, when a plane flew into restricted air space in Washington, D.C. He also co-anchored Judy Woodruff’s last broadcast on CNN in June 2005. Shaw noted that after 41 years in the business, given what he missed in his personal life, the cost was not worth it.
Along with his wife, Linda Allston, Shaw is survived by two children, Amar Edgar and Anil Louise, according to CNN.
