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Lynne Russell (born November 1, 1946 in Orange, New Jersey, U.S.) is a news reader on the Canadian cable news channel CBC Newsworld, part of the CBC, and has been since May 2006.
She is best known for anchoring prime time newscasts on CNN Headline News from 1983 to 2001. This stint made her the first woman to anchor a nationally-televised prime time news program.
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Early years
In college, Russell studied nursing, but dropped out and started working at a Colorado radio station, first as a receptionist, later as a DJ and talk radio host. She was a field anchor for WTLV in Jacksonville, Florida. Afterward she became a co-anchor at WTLV before leaving for CNN.
CNN Headline News
Russell was one of the most popular anchors on CNN Headline News and had a cult following during her career at CNN. She left Headline News just prior to the 2001 radical changes at the network.
Post-CNN
After CNN, Russell spent time authoring her autobiography, How to Win Friends, Kick Ass, and Influence People (1999), and is a licensed private detective and sheriff's deputy. She has two black belts in the martial art of Choi Kwang-Do. A side career and hobby is making her own hand-crafted lampshades and selling them from her official Web site; however, it's believed she's stopped the business at least temporarily since moving to Canada in 2005, as described below. Russell and her husband, Thomas Beck, moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in July 2005. Beck, a German citizen, is the current president and CEO of the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce. In May 2006, Russell became a news reader for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's CBC Newsworld all-news cable channel. She has said previously that her goal was to ease herself into the role of news reader part-time and, as a result, can be seen during the late afternoon and evening hours of Fridays anchoring CBC Newsworld's one-minute headline-style newscast at the top of every hour, between 6 PM and 12 AM Eastern. The title of that newscast is . During the summer months, she also fills in as news anchor of various news programs, including the Newsworld's flagship CBC News: Today.
