Roberts won the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of Congress and the Who Who, Everett McKinley Dirksen Award. Her final assignment with NPR was a series of segments on Morning. Edition titled “Ask Cokie”
About Cokie Roberts in brief
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne \”Cokie\” Roberts December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019. Her career included decades as a political reporter and analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News, with prominent positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeilLehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week. 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 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. Roberts’ first job in journalism was at WRC-TV in Washington, D. C., where she was host of its weekly public affairs program Meeting of the Minds. Roberts won the Edward R. Murrow Award for coverage of Congress, the Who Who, Everett McKinley Dirksen Award, and a Emmy Award for her contribution to the Guatemalan Who Who case. Her final assignment with NPR was a series of segments on Morning. Edition titled “Ask Cokie”, in which she answered questions submitted by listeners about subjects related to U.S. politics.
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