Cokie Roberts, 75, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, is being remembered as a pioneer for other female broadcast journalists.
Cokie Roberts has died at age 75, having blazed a trail for thousands of female journalists, working for NPR, ABC and other broadcasters during an award-winning career.with Sam Donaldson from 1996 to 2002. She was most proud professionally of a series of books about women in Washington.was about the changing roles and relationships of women. She also wrote two books with her husband, Steven Roberts, about marriage and an interfaith family.
But she got her start at a newsletter, worked in local news and filed stories for CBS News from Greece when her husband was stationed there as a correspondent. She was bitten by the bug.