Dan Rather, 94, returns to Instagram after six years to promote his blog

Dan Rather, the former CBS anchor who spent 24 years behind the CBS Evening News desk, posted his first Instagram photo in more than six years on Thursday, according to Parade. The 94-year-old broadcaster shared the image at his home desk to promote his ongoing work on Steady, the news and politics newsletter he launched in 2021.

Mr. Rather captioned the photo, “Working on Steady, my Substack about news and politics.” He posted the same image to X and Threads.

Mr. Rather’s career in journalism spans more than six decades. He joined CBS’ television news operation in 1962 after starting out in radio, and he went on to cover the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from Dallas in 1963, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal as a White House correspondent under the Johnson and Nixon administrations. He joined 60 Minutes as a correspondent in 1975 before succeeding Walter Cronkite at the CBS Evening News desk in 1981, a post he held until stepping down in 2005. He also hosted the newsmagazine 48 Hours beginning in 1988.

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Over his career, Mr. Rather won numerous Emmy and Peabody Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 2005, according to an archival biography maintained by the University of Texas at Austin’s Briscoe Center for American History, which holds his papers.

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