Susan Spencer is an American television news reporter and correspondent for '' 48 Hours Mystery and

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''. Spencer was born in

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. She graduated from Michigan State University in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in

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. The following year, she completed her master's in journalism.

Career

From 1971 to 1972, Spencer worked as a researcher for CBS-owned

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in New York. She was also a writer and producer for public affairs broadcast at WKPC-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. From 1972 to 1977, she worked for

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-based CBS station

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, where she was reporter and co-anchor. She joined CBS News' Washington bureau in 1977 and became a correspondent in 1978. In 1986, she was named medical correspondent for CBS News. She anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1987 to 1988. Also from 1987 through 1988, she was a substitute anchor and from 1988 through 1989, anchor of the Sunday edition of ''

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''. In 1989, she reported on the death of

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of Japan and

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. A year later, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Spencer reported major international events such as the

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. As national correspondent, she also covered the first inauguration of President

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and the re-election campaign of President

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. She was then CBS News' White House correspondent and the main correspondent for its "Eye on America" segments. In 1993, she was named a correspondent for ''48 Hours'', covering subjects ranging from drug wars in Colombia to custody battles in the United States.

Awards

Spencer has been recognized with Emmy Awards for her ''48 Hours'' stories, an

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Award, and a RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence for a story about the struggle of a child to find a match for an organ transplant. Susan's husband

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is a former political columnist for the ''

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''.

References

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