article_title name birth_date
steve bell -lrb- anchorman -rrb-
 stephen scott bell 9 december 1935
steve bell -lrb- anchorman -rrb-

steve bell -lrb- born december 9 , 1935 -rrb- is the former news anchor of abc news programs `` good morning america '' and `` world news this morning '' , and professor emeritus of telecommunications at muncie 's ball state university .
a native of oskaloosa , iowa , bell studied as an undergraduate at iowa 's central college and went on to earn a master 's degree in journalism from northwestern university .
he worked for abc news from 1967 to 1986 ; his experiences in southeast asia covering the vietnam war included two hours in detention in cambodia while investigating a story about an alleged massacre of vietnamese residents .
he first met ted koppel during his years in southeast asia ; the two would go on to become good friends .
after his return to america , he began working on `` good morning america '' , where he would stay for 11 years , eventually rising to the position of news anchor ; he left the position in 1986 and moved to philadelphia , pennsylvania to co-anchor evening newscasts for kyw-tv .
he took up a post as a telecommunications professor ball state in august 1992 , which he enjoyed greatly right from the start .
he was inducted into the indiana journalism hall of fame in 2004 .
after thirteen years there , he still stated that he did n't really miss his work as a newscaster .
he retired from his position at ball state in 2007 .
bell appeared on nightline in 2005 to present a report on how china has changed since mao 's rule ; he and koppel had earlier filmed a documentary there during the mao zedong era .
the steve bell news packaging scholarship is given each semester at ball state university to students for excellence in television news story packaging .
