Joan Lunden was the co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997. As of 2014, Lunden is a special correspondent for NBC’s Today. Her most recent television shows include hosting DirectTV’s series Hometown Heroes and the Emmy-winning special America’s Invisible Children.
About Joan Lunden in brief
Joan Lunden was the co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997. As of 2014, Lunden is a special correspondent for NBC’s Today. Lunden covered four presidents, five Olympic Games, and two royal weddings. Her most recent television shows include hosting DirectTV’s series Hometown Heroes and the Emmy-winning special America’s Invisible Children. She is currently the spokesperson for A Place for Mom, a national senior care referral service. She was one of only three American journalists to interview Prince Charles during his 1983 visit to the United States. She climbed and rappelled Alaska’s famed Mendenhall Glacier and bungee-jumped off a 143-foot bridge and paraglided off a 2,000-foot mountain during the program’s highly rated trip to New Zealand.
She also hosted ABC’s broadcast of the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, from 1989 to 1989. She has been a spokesperson for Mothers Against Drunk Driving since 1991. She earned numerous honors and awards, including the Spirit of Achievement Award from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the YWCA Outstanding Woman of the Year Award in 1982–1983. She won the Matrix Award for her dedication to motherhood in 1982, and the National Institute of Infant Services Mother of the year award in 1983.
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