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Omaha Steve

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Wed Jul 15, 2015, 01:48 PM Jul 2015

Pioneering Television Journalist Marlene Sanders Dies at Age 84

Source: Time

Nolan Feeney

She was the first female journalist to report from Vietnam for network TV

Emmy-winning television journalist Marlene Sanders died Tuesday at age 84. The cause of death was cancer.

Her son, The New Yorker staff writer and CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, announced the news on Facebook. “She informed and inspired a generation,” he wrote. “Above all, though, she was a great Mom.”

FULL short story at link.



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Journalist Marlene Sanders at an event in New York in 2005.

Read more: http://time.com/3958456/marlene-sanders-dies/

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