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Cokie Roberts  Radio and Television Journalist

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Cokie Roberts

MT&R Seminar, The Women of National Public Radio, 1994

Since 1978, Cokie Roberts has worked at NPR, a network that has spotlighted more women in challenging and creative positions than most major news organizations. Here she talks about why diversity in the newsroom is so important and what stories she specifically covered because she is a woman.
 

Career Includes

Reporter, CBS News (1974–77); News Analyst, NPR (1978– ); Cohost, The Lawmakers (1981–84); Contributor, MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (1984–88); Political Commentator, ABC News (1988– ); Panelist, This Week with David Brinkley (1988–96); Coanchor, This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts (1996–2002); Author, We Are Our Mother’s Daughters (1988), From This Day Forward, with husband Steven V. Roberts (2000), Founding Mothers (2004)
 

Education

Wellesley College, 1964, BA, Political Science
 

Born

December 27, 1943
New Orleans, Louisiana

 

 

 

 

 


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