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Peter Jennings

1938 - 2005

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Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American television journalist, best known for serving as the sole anchor of ABC World News Tonight from 1983 until his death from lung cancer in 2005. Despite dropping out of high school, Jennings transformed himself into one of American television's most prominent journalists. Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio show at age 9. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Peter Jennings has received more than 3,494,556 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Peter Jennings is the 118th most popular journalist (down from 105th in 2019), the 628th most popular biography from Canada (up from 643rd in 2019) and the most popular Canadian Journalist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Peter Jennings ranks 118 out of 196. Before him are Margarita Simonyan, Jill Dando, Catherine Leroy, Dorothy Thompson, Daniel Schneidermann, and Chingiz Mustafayev. After him are Kenji Nagai, Megyn Kelly, Samantha Power, Sydney Schanberg, Hu Shuli, and Muntadhar al-Zaidi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Peter Jennings ranks 547. Before him are Neville Lederle, Wiesław Maniak, Abel Laudonio, Napoleon Chagnon, Terry Wogan, and Dawn Wells. After him are Sultan Rahi, Salvatore Morale, Achim Müller, Robert Hughes, Nikolai Manoshin, and Jonathan Riley-Smith. Among people deceased in 2005, Peter Jennings ranks 330. Before him are Harold J. Stone, George Szekeres, Richard Doll, Adrian Biddle, Nikolai Puchkov, and Georges Dransart. After him are Henry Proctor, P. Bhanumathi, Art Cross, Chloe Jones, Constance Cummings, and Aleksy Antkiewicz.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Peter Jennings ranks 628 out of 1,622. Before him are Pablo Schreiber (1978), Shalom Harlow (1973), John Porter (1904), Carly Rae Jepsen (1985), Emmanuelle Vaugier (1976), and Gloria Reuben (1964). After him are Roger Avary (1965), Will Arnett (1970), Will Kymlicka (1962), Richard Louis Duckett (1884), Santino Marella (1974), and Mike Bossy (1957).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Canada

Among journalists born in Canada, Peter Jennings ranks 1. After him are Lauren Southern (1995).

Canadian born Journalists

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