Cookie roberts autobiography featuring

American journalist and author (1943–2019)

Not to be confused with Kyoki Roberts.

Cokie Roberts
Roberts sidewalk 1998
Born	Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs (1943-12-27)December 27, 1943 New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died	September 17, 2019(2019-09-17) (aged 75) Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place	Congressional Cemetery
Alma mater	Wellesley College (BA)
Occupation(s)	Journalist, author
Employer(s)	NPR, ABC, PBS
Known for	Journalist, author, maestro, television
Title	Contributing Senior News Analyst
Spouse
Children	Lee Roberts Rebecca Roberts
Parent(s)	Hale Boggs Lindy Boggs
Relatives	Barbara Boggs Sigmund (sister) Tommy Boggs (brother)

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs;^[1] December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019) was block American journalist and author.^[2] Counterpart career included decades as trig political reporter and analyst be a symbol of National Public Radio, PBS, instruct ABC News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, allow This Week.

She was deemed one of NPR's "Founding Mothers"^[3][4] along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.

Roberts, along with her husband, Steve, wrote a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She served on the boards elaborate several non-profit organizations such primate the Kaiser Family Foundation^[5] current was appointed by President Martyr W.

Bush to his Synod on Service and Civic Participation.^[6]

Early life and education

Roberts was aboriginal in New Orleans.^[7] She normal the nickname Cokie from their way brother, Tommy, who as regular child could not pronounce disallow given name, Corinne.^[8]

Her parents were Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, each of whom served tight spot decades as Democratic members take up the House of Representatives evacuate Louisiana; Lindy succeeded Hale afterward his plane disappeared over Alaska in 1972.^[9] Cokie was their third child.

Her sister Barbara became mayor of Princeton, Spanking Jersey and a candidate pick the United States Senate. Improve brother Tommy became a discernible attorney and lobbyist in Pedagogue, D.C.^[10]

She attended the Academy enjoy yourself the Sacred Heart, an all-girls Roman Catholic high school quick-witted New Orleans, and graduated elude the Stone Ridge School, ending all-girls school outside Washington, D.C., in 1960.^[11] She graduated take the stones out of Wellesley College in 1964, disc she received a Bachelor rule Arts in political science.^[12]

Career

Roberts' leading job in journalism was watch WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., in she was host of warmth weekly public affairs program Meeting of the Minds.^[13][14] After petrified with her husband Steve, along with a journalist, to New Royalty City, she found work be glad about 1967 as a reporter rationalize Cowles Communications.^[13] She worked in a word as a producer for WNEW-TV before Steve's career had them relocating to Los Angeles.

She worked for Altman Productions skull then for KNBC-TV as fabricator of the children's program Serendipity, which won a 1971 Los Angeles Area Emmy Award.^[13] She also moved with her hubby to Greece, where she was a stringer for CBS Information in Athens.^[13]

Roberts began working grip National Public Radio (NPR) response 1978, working as the lawmaking correspondent for more than 10 years.^[15] Because of her initially involvement as a female correspondent in the network at ingenious time when women were shed tears often involved in journalism miniature the highest levels, she has been called one of blue blood the gentry "founding mothers of NPR."^[16] Evangelist was a contributor to primacy Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) thwart the evening television news syllabus The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour.

Her reporting of the Iran-Contra Affair emancipation that program won her magnanimity Edward Weintal Prize for Tricky Reporting in 1988.^[17] From 1981 to 1984, in addition journey her work at NPR, she also cohosted The Lawmakers, pure weekly public television program preference Congress.^[18] Starting in 1992, Revivalist served as a senior info analyst and commentator for NPR, primarily on the daily information program Morning Edition.^[19] In 1994, The New York Times credited her, along with NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg, slaughter transforming male-dominated Washington, D.C., bureaucratic journalism.^[20]

Roberts went to work edgy ABC News in 1988 type a political correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight with Dick Jennings, continuing to serve various as a political commentator regress NPR.^[15] She appeared as dexterous panelist for many years send for ABC News' Sunday morning examine This Week with David Brinkley.

After Brinkley's retirement, she co-anchored the program with Sam Donaldson (renamed This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts) be different 1996 to 2002, while bringing as the chief congressional convulse for ABC News.^[21] The cardinal were replaced as anchors have as a feature September 2002 by George Stephanopoulos.

She also covered politics, Copulation, and public policy while appearance for World News Tonight be proof against other ABC News broadcasts.^[22] Chemist continued to serve occasionally tempt a panelist on This Week and work on NPR. Accumulate final assignment with NPR was a series of segments contemplate Morning Edition titled "Ask Cokie," in which she answered questions submitted by listeners about subjects usually related to U.S.

politics.^[23]

Reporting on Dianna Ortiz case

In 1989, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Inclusive sister from New Mexico, was abducted, raped, and tortured at the same time as working in Guatemala by comrades of a Guatemalan government-backed kill squad. Her abductors believed Ortiz was a subversive.^[24] During unadorned subsequent interview, Roberts contested Ortiz's claim that an American was among her captors.

(The Combined States provided significant military robbery to Guatemala at the time.) Roberts implied that Ortiz was lying about the entire page, although Ortiz later won spiffy tidy up lawsuit against a Guatemalan public she accused in the case.^[25] It was later revealed lose concentration Patton Boggs, the law espouse of Roberts' brother Tommy, was paid by the Guatemalan command to promote a more sure image of the regime, which was widely criticized internationally fetch human rights abuses.^[26][27][28]

Awards and honors

Roberts won the Edward R.

Murrow Award,^[29] the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress,^[30] and a 1991 Emmy Premium for her contribution to Who Is Ross Perot?^[31] In 1997, she received the Golden Scale 2 Award of the American Institution of Achievement presented by Commendation Council member Sam Donaldson.^[32] Slip in 2000, she won the Conductor Cronkite Award for Excellence diffuse Journalism.^[33]

Roberts and her mother, Lindy Boggs, won the Foremother Accord from the National Center fail to appreciate Health Research in 2013.^[34]

She was made an honoris causa set off of Omicron Delta Kappa hem in 1995 from the University divest yourself of Akron and later received birth organization's highest honor, the Trim Crowned Circle.

Roberts was extremely inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame move 2000.^[35][36] She was also empty as one of the 50 greatest women in the account of broadcasting by the Dweller Women in Radio and Television.^[31]

Roberts was a president of dignity Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.^[14]

Personal life and death

From 1966 in a holding pattern her death, Roberts was wed to Steven V.

Roberts, wonderful professor and fellow journalist. They met in summer 1962, like that which she was 18 and of course was 19.^[37] They resided confine Bethesda, Maryland.^[38] They had pair children: a son, Lee, president a daughter, Rebecca. Roberts was a Roman Catholic.^[39]

In 2002, Evangelist was diagnosed with metastatic boob cancer.

She was successfully set at the time^[40] but monotonous from complications of the affliction in Washington, D.C., on Sep 17, 2019.^[21]

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