 |
| Lee Thornton |
Lee Thornton, a radio and television journalist who covered
the White House for CBS News during the Carter administration, became a host of
“All Things Considered” on NPR and produced “Both Sides With Jesse Jackson” for
CNN, died on Sept. 25 at her home in Bethesda ,
Md.
She was 71, according to the NYTimes.
The cause was pancreatic cancer, said Bernadette Gormally,
coordinator at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland
Ms. Thornton became the first black woman to report from the
White House for CBS News in 1977, three years after she joined the network.
No comments:
Post a Comment