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Marya McLaughlin (December 29, 1929 - September 14, 1998) was a reporter who was
CBS
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's first female television reporter.
Biography
McLaughlin was born in 1928 in
Baltimore
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,
Maryland
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, and raised in
Alexandria, Virginia
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In 2020, the population was 159,467. ...
. She graduated from St. Mary's Academy in Alexandria, then attended the
Catholic University of America and
Marymount College. Her first job was as a math teacher at Marymount. She joined her sister at CBS, working in a temporary position. She then worked on
NBC
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's ''
The Huntley–Brinkley Report
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before going back to CBS in 1963, originally to cover the election, and later as an associate producer, working on several films, including the documentary ''1945.'' In 1965, she was sent to the New York Bureau, becoming CBS's first female reporter. Throughout the 1960s, she was one of the few women in television, along with
Nancy Dickerson
Nancy Dickerson (January 19, 1927 – October 18, 1997) was an American radio and television journalist and researcher for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. As famous as a celebrity and socialite as she was for her journalism, she later ...
and
Marlene Sanders
Marlene Sanders (January 10, 1931 – July 14, 2015) was an American television news correspondent, anchor, producer and executive who worked for ABC News in the 1960s and 1970s and moved to CBS News in 1978. She is known for being the first woma ...
, to have major on-air roles.
Several of McLaughlin's first stories were on the wives of the men working on the
Gemini 4
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space mission, and on the families of
Lyndon B. Johnson
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and
Richard Nixon
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. In 1971, she was promoted from general assignment reporter to
news correspondent
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. The new position led her to cover politics, including the
Watergate scandal
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. Several of the television shows that she appeared in as a news correspondent were ''
CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
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'', ''
Face the Nation
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'' and ''
CBS Morning News
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''. Until her retirement in 1988, she worked with many radio shows, chief among them ''
Washington Week
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''.
References
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1929 births
1998 deaths
Writers from Baltimore
Journalists from Maryland
Catholic University of America alumni
Marymount College, Tarrytown alumni
CBS News people
20th-century American journalists