# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-chancellor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:26:51.732Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-chancellor"
name: "John Chancellor"
slug: "john-chancellor"
description: "John William Chancellor was an American journalist who spent most of his career with NBC News. He is considered a pioneer in television news. Chancellor served as anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982 and continued to do editorials and commentaries for NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw until 1993."
tagline: "American TV journalist (1927–1996)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_Chancellor_White_House1970.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1927-07-14"
deathDate: "1996-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.5479885967690846
  historical:           10.65321333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0151253/"
    handle:    "nm0151253"
sources:
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    title: "John Chancellor"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "John Chancellor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chancellor"
    title: "John Chancellor"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump