Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; December 27, 1943 – September 17, 2019), known as 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 and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation. She received the sobriquet "Cokie" from her brother Tommy, who, as a child, could not pronounce her given name, Corinne. Roberts's mother was ambassador to the Holy See and longtime Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs. Her father was Hale Boggs, a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana. He was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and a member of the Warren Commission. After Hale Boggs was lost on a plane which disappeared over Alaska on October 16, 1972, Lindy was elected to fill his seat in Congress. Cokie was the couple's third child. Her sister, Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother, Tommy Boggs, was a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist. Roberts began working for NPR in 1978, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years. She was a contributor to PBS in the evening television news program The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. Her coverage of the Iran-Contra Affair for that program won her the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting in 1988. From 1981 to 1984, in addition to her work at NPR, she also co-hosted The Lawmakers, a weekly public television program on Congress. She went to work for ABC News in 1988 as a political correspondent for ABC's World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, continuing to serve part-time as a political commentator at NPR. Starting In 1992, Roberts served as a senior news analyst and commentator for NPR. She was usually heard on Morning Edition, appearing on Mondays to discuss the week in politics. Roberts was the co-anchor of the ABC News' Sunday morning broadcast This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts from 1996 to 2002, while serving as the chief congressional analyst for ABC News. She covered politics, Congress and public policy, reporting for World News Tonight and other ABC News broadcasts. 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. Roberts was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. She was also cited as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting by the American Women in Radio and Television. 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.

  • Umutwe: Cokie Roberts
  • Icyamamare: 2.076
  • Azwiho: Acting
  • Isabukuru: 1943-12-27
  • Aho yavukiye: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
  • Urupapuro rwitangiriro:
  • Birazwi kandi: Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts
img

Cokie Roberts Filime

  • 2018
    imgFilime

    America's Library

    America's Library

    1 2018 HD

    img
  • 1988
    imgFilime

    An Empire of Reason

    An Empire of Reason

    1 1988 HD

    img
  • 1989
    imgFilime

    The Congress

    The Congress

    9 1989 HD

    img
  • 2008
    imgFilime

    Founding Mothers

    Founding Mothers

    1 2008 HD

    img
  • 2018
    imgFilime

    The Hello Girls

    The Hello Girls

    1 2018 HD

    img
  • 1996
    imgS29 E138

    The Daily Show

    The Daily Show

    6.4 1996 HD

    img
  • 2005
    imgS16 E87

    The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer

    The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer

    3 2005 HD

    img
  • 1997
    imgS28 E39

    The View

    The View

    4.4 1997 HD

    img
  • 2005
    imgS11 E40

    The Colbert Report

    The Colbert Report

    6.822 2005 HD

    img
  • 1993
    imgS12 E2

    Intimate Portrait

    Intimate Portrait

    4.5 1993 HD

    img
  • 2017
    imgS1 E7

    The Nineties

    The Nineties

    6.9 2017 HD

    img
  • 1993
    imgS16 E98

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    7.1 1993 HD

    img