Cokie Roberts was an American journalist and bestselling author. She passed away on September 17, 2019.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about her life and career!
- Her name was Mary Roberts
- She was born on December 27, 1943
- She died on September 17, 2019
- She is best known as Cokie Roberts
- Cokie Roberts 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 positions on Morning Edition, The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, World News Tonight, and This Week
- Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, 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
- She was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation
- Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs was born on December 27, 1943, in New Orleans, Louisiana
- She received the nickname “Cokie” from her brother Tommy
- Who, as a child, could not pronounce her given name, Corinne
- Her parents were Lindy Boggs and Hale Boggs
- Each of whom would serve for decades as Democratic members of the House of Representatives from Louisiana
- Lindy succeeded Hale after his plane disappeared over Alaska in 1972
- Cokie was the couple’s third child
- Her sister, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, would become mayor of Princeton, New Jersey
- And a candidate for the Senate
- Her brother Tommy Boggs would become a prominent Washington, D.C., attorney and lobbyist
- Roberts attended the Academy of the Sacred Heart
- An all-girls school in New Orleans
- Before graduating from the Stone Ridge School, an all-girls school outside Washington, D.C., in 1960
- She graduated from Wellesley College in 1964
- There she received a BA in Political Science
- Roberts won the Edward R. Murrow Award
- The Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress
- And a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to “Who is Ross Perot?”
- In 2000, Roberts won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
- She and her mother, Lindy Boggs, won the Foremother Award from the National Center for Health Research in 2013
- Roberts was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2000
- She was also cited as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting by the American Women in Radio and Television
- Roberts was a president of the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association
- She was married to Steven V. Roberts
- A professor and fellow journalist
- They were married from 1966 until her death
- They met in the summer of 1962
- When she was 18 and he was 19
- They resided in Bethesda, Maryland
- She and her husband had two children
- Their daughter Rebecca Roberts is also a journalist and was one of the hosts of POTUS ’08 on XM Radio
- In 2002, Roberts was diagnosed with breast cancer
- She was successfully treated at the time
- But died from complications of the disease in Washington, D.C. on September 17, 2019
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