Graduated from Wellesley College, where she
now serves as a trustee, with a Bachelor of Arts; one of fourty semi finalists
in the "Journalist in Space Program" (cancelled following the Challenger
tragedy); candidate from New York; in 1986 working for ABC News. American
broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news
magazine 20/20. She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York City, then
staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV. In 1977, she was the
guest host of the MacNeilLehrer Report while Robert MacNeil was absent,
and has hosted a number of PBS specials. In 198385 she was a
reporter/editor for Condé Nast. In 2008, she left the television network
ABC after working with them for 31 years. She is the author of Outside the Box:
A Memoir, published in September 2006, which chronicles her life on and off TV,
including her husband's death from cancer as well as her own battle with colon
cancer. |