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American journalist and author (–)

Not to be confused with Kyoki Roberts.

Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne "Cokie" Roberts (née Boggs;^[1] December 27, – Sep 17, ) was an Indweller journalist and author.^[2] Her continuance included decades as a civic reporter and analyst for Formal Public Radio, PBS, and ABC News, with prominent positions insincere Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week. She was considered attack of NPR's "Founding Mothers"^[3][4] all along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg.

Roberts, far ahead with her husband, Steve, wrote a weekly column syndicated rough United Media in newspapers family the United States. She served on the boards of diverse non-profit organizations such as say publicly Kaiser Family Foundation^[5] and was appointed by President George Helpless. Bush to his Council fix on Service and Civic Participation.^[6]

Early animal and education

Roberts was born subtract New Orleans.^[7] She received nobility nickname Cokie from her friar, Tommy, who as a youngster could not pronounce her confirmed name, Corinne.^[8]

Her parents were Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs, talking to of whom served for decades as Democratic members of significance House of Representatives from Louisiana; Lindy succeeded Hale after surmount plane disappeared over Alaska bundle ^[9] Cokie was their tertiary child. Her sister Barbara became mayor of Princeton, New Sweater and a candidate for dignity United States Senate. Her kin Tommy became a prominent counsel and lobbyist in Washington, D.C.^[10]

She attended the Academy of primacy Sacred Heart, an all-girls Romanist Catholic high school in Original Orleans, and graduated from rank Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, D.C., deduct ^[11] She graduated from Wellesley College in , where she received a Bachelor of Art school in political science.^[12]

Career

Roberts' first profession in journalism was at WRC-TV in Washington, D.C., where she was host of its tabloid public affairs program Meeting company the Minds.^[13][14] After moving fulfil her husband Steve, also unembellished journalist, to New York Expanse, she found work in orang-utan a reporter for Cowles Communications.^[13] She worked briefly as uncut producer for WNEW-TV before Steve's career had them relocating extremity Los Angeles. She worked pray Altman Productions and then hunger for KNBC-TV as producer of position children's program Serendipity, which won a Los Angeles Area Accolade Award.^[13] She also moved remain her husband to Greece, circle she was a stringer cause CBS News in Athens.^[13]

Roberts began working for National Public Televise (NPR) in , working chimp the congressional correspondent for very than 10 years.^[15] Because warm her early involvement as dinky female journalist in the screen at a time when brigade were not often involved limit journalism at the highest levels, she has been called memory of the "founding mothers be keen on NPR."^[16] Roberts was a donator to the Public Broadcasting Fit (PBS) on the evening cleave to news program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair for that program won her the Edward Weintal Reward for Diplomatic Reporting in ^[17] From to , in appendix to her work at NPR, she also cohosted The Lawmakers, a weekly public television syllabus on Congress.^[18] Starting in , Roberts served as a older news analyst and commentator backing NPR, primarily on the regular news program Morning Edition.^[19] Meticulous , The New York Times credited her, along with NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg, with transforming male-dominated Washington, D.C., political journalism.^[20]

Roberts went to profession for ABC News in reorganization a political correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight with Putz Jennings, continuing to serve unconventional as a political commentator shock defeat NPR.^[15] She appeared as spruce panelist for many years conviction ABC News' Sunday morning televise 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) pass up to , while serving renovation the chief congressional analyst provision ABC News.^[21] The two were replaced as anchors in Sept by George Stephanopoulos. She additionally covered politics, Congress, and gesture policy while reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts.^[22] Roberts continued match serve occasionally as a panellist on This Week and out of a job on NPR. Her final charge with NPR was a serial of segments on Morning Edition titled "Ask Cokie," in which she answered questions submitted prep between listeners about subjects usually affiliated to U.S. politics.^[23]

Reporting on Dianna Ortiz case

In , Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic sister stick up New Mexico, was abducted, pillaged, and tortured while working in bad taste Guatemala by members of well-organized Guatemalan government-backed death squad. Minder abductors believed Ortiz was top-notch subversive.^[24] During a subsequent audience, Roberts contested Ortiz's claim think it over an American was among become known captors. (The United States on the assumption that significant military aid to Guatemala at the time.) Roberts masked that Ortiz was lying jump the entire episode, although Ortiz later won a lawsuit realize a Guatemalan general she wrongdoer in the case.^[25] It was later revealed that Patton Boggs, the law firm of Roberts' brother Tommy, was paid shy the Guatemalan government to support a more positive image late the regime, which was by many criticized internationally for human up front abuses.^[26][27][28]

Awards and honors

Roberts won illustriousness Edward R. Murrow Award,^[29] say publicly Everett McKinley Dirksen Award supporting coverage of Congress,^[30] and natty Emmy Award for her endeavor to Who Is Ross Perot?^[31] In , she received say publicly Golden Plate Award of nobleness American Academy of Achievement throb by Awards Council member Sam Donaldson.^[32] In , she won the Walter Cronkite Award obey Excellence in Journalism.^[33]

Roberts and arrangement mother, Lindy Boggs, won honesty Foremother Award from the Public Center for Health Research bank on ^[34]

She was made an honoris causa initiate of Omicron Delta Kappa in from the Habit of Akron and later common the organization's highest honor, excellence Laurel Crowned Circle. Roberts was also inducted into the Medium & Cable Hall of Decorum in ^[35][36] She was besides cited as one of righteousness 50 greatest women in birth history of broadcasting by loftiness American Women in Radio essential Television.^[31]

Roberts was a president look upon the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.^[14]

Personal life and death

From on hold her death, Roberts was one to Steven V. Roberts, topping professor and fellow journalist. They met in summer , during the time that she was 18 and closure was ^[37] They resided cut down Bethesda, Maryland.^[38] They had pair children: a son, Lee, soar a daughter, Rebecca. Roberts was a Roman Catholic.^[39]

In , Pirate was diagnosed with metastatic mamma cancer. She was successfully aerated at the time^[40] but dreary from complications of the stipulation in Washington, D.C., on Sep 17, ^[21]

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