WASHINGTON — Jim Lehrer will step down as anchor of PBS’s “NewsHour” on June 6, ending 36 years in that job, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

Lehrer, 76, said he would continue to appear on Fridays to moderate the show’s news analysis segment and would be involved with the show’s production company, MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.

Lehrer, also familiar to American audiences as the moderator of 11 presidential debates, joined The “NewsHour” – then called “The Robert MacNeil Report” — in 1975 as a Washington correspondent.

In 1976, the show was renamed “The MacNeil/Lehrer Report” and it became “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” in 1995 when MacNeil left.

In 2009, the show was renamed the “PBS NewsHour.”