Margaret Larson (née Pelley; born February 24, 1958) is an American broadcast journalist and

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. Her most notable position was with

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. She worked as a foreign

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from 1990 to 1992 and news anchor from 1992 to 1994 on the ''

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'' show, later returning as a correspondent for ''

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''. For her last decade in

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, she spent time volunteering with international aid organization Mercy Corps and acting as a board member. After a brief stint at

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in Seattle as an anchor, she moved to

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in the mid-'90s. She left KING-TV to accept a full-time position as Vice President of Communications for Mercy Corps in 2002. Larson later left this position to become an independent contractor for international aid organizations in order to broaden her focus to Africa and HIV/

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issues. Larson has consulted with Mercy Corps,

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, Global Partnerships, and PATH. In March 2010, she returned to KING-TV to host a one-hour lifestyle show, ''New Day Northwest,'' weekday mornings. Larson announced her retirement in early July 2020, with her last ''New Day Northwest'' episode broadcast on July 31, 2020.

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