Cokie Roberts - Фильмы

Мэри Марту Corinne Моррисон Claiborne Робертс (родилась Боггс; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019), known as Cokie Робертс, was an American journalist and bestselling author. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News, with prominent позиции on, Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week. Робертс, along with her husband, Стивен V. Робертс, wrote a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She served on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation. She received the псевдонимом "Cokie" from her brother Tommy, the who, as a child could not pronounce her given name, Коринна. Roberts's mother was ambassador to the Holy See and longtime Демократичные Congresswoman from Louisiana Линди Боггс. Her father was Хейл Боггс, a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana. He was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and a member of the Warren Commission. After Хейл Боггс was lost on a plane which disappeared over Alaska on October 16, 1972, Линди was elected to fill his seat in Congress. Cokie was the couple's third child. Her sister, Барбара Boggs Зигмунд, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate for U. S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother, Томми Боггс, was a prominent Washington, D. C. attorney and lobbyist. Робертс began working for NPR in 1978, where she was the congressional соответствуют for more than ten years. She was a contributor to PBS in the evening television news program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair for program that won her the Edward Pokies Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 1988. From 1981 to 1984, in addition to her work at NPR, she also co-hosted The Lawmakers, a weekly public television program on Congress. She went to work for ABC News in 1988 as a political correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, continuing to serve part-time as a political commentator at NPR. Starting In 1992, Робертс served as a senior news analyst and commentator for NPR. She was usually heard on Morning Edition, appearing on Mondays to discuss the week in politics. Roberts was the co-anchor of the ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts from 1996 to 2002, while serving as the chief конгресса analyst for ABC News. She covered politics, Congress and public policy reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts. Робертс won the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Эверетт Маккинли Дирксен Award for coverage of Congress, and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to "Who is Ross Perot?" В 2000 году Робертс won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. Roberts was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She was also cited as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting by the American Women in Radio and Television. In 2002 Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was successfully treated at the time, but died from осложнений of the disease in Washington, D. C. on September 17, 2019.