Sally Jacobsen (June 12, 1946 – May 12, 2017) was an American journalist,

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and editor whose career spanned 39-years at the Associated Press. In 1999, Jacobsen became the first woman to serve as the international editor for the AP, where she oversaw the news agency's overseas news bureaus. During her tenure as international editor, Jacobson supervised the AP's foreign coverage on the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the

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. She was later promoted to AP deputy managing editor for operations and projects, where she edited the

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. Jacobsen grew up in Gunnison, Colorado. She received her bachelor's degree from Iowa State University and a master's degree in economics from Cornell University. Jacobsen retired from the ''Associated Press'' in 2015 and resided in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. She died from cancer at Phelps Memorial Hospital in

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, on May 12, 2017, at the age of 70. Jacobsen was survived by her husband, Patrick Oster, a novelist and retired managing editor for Bloomberg News; their son, Alex; and two Airedale terriers, Tazz and Gemma.

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