Words Matter Library: Cokie Roberts Tribute

Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Last Month, we lost best-selling author, iconic reporter and journalistic pioneer Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts, "Cokie" to her family, friends, colleagues and the tens of millions of Americans who read her column or watched and listened to her every week on NPR and ABC News. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she learned politics at an early age. Both her father and her mother served for decades in the United States Congress. An award winning political reporter and analyst, Cokie Roberts, along with Eleanor Clift, NPR's Linda Wertheimer and Nina Totenberg transformed the male dominated world of Washington political journalism. An Emmy Award winner, Cokie Roberts also earned other honors, including the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress and the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2000, she was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame. With all the impeachment news weren’t able to properly pay tribute to her life and legacy. And so, this week, to honor groundbreaking journalist Cokie Roberts, we put her 2013 commencement address at LSU into the Words Matter Library. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.
0:12.3	This is the Words Matter Library.
0:16.6	Last month, we lost best-selling author, iconic reporter and journalistic pioneer Mary
0:23.6	Martha Karin Morrison Clayborne Boggs Roberts.
0:27.7	Koki, to her family, friends, colleagues, and the tens of millions of Americans who
0:33.2	read her column or watched and listened to her every week on NPR and ABC News.
0:40.8	Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she learned politics at and early age.
0:45.8	Both her father and her mother served four decades in the United States Congress.
0:51.3	An award-winning political reporter and analyst, Koki Roberts, along with Eleanor Clifft,
0:57.2	NPR's Linda Wirtzheimer and Nina Totenberg, transformed the male-dominated world of
1:02.9	Washington political journalism.
1:05.4	An Emmy award-winner, Koki Roberts, also earned other honors including the Edward R. Murrow
1:11.4	Award, the Everett McKinley-Durkson Award for coverage of Congress, and the Walter
1:16.3	Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
1:19.7	In 2000, she was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame.
1:24.5	With all the impeachment news, we weren't able to properly pay tribute to her life and
1:29.6	legacy.
1:30.6	And so, this week, to honor groundbreaking journalist Koki Roberts, we put her 2013 commencement
1:37.4	address at LSU into the Words Matter Library.
1:42.6	On a graduates' distinguished guest, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome a very special
1:48.1	person in American Koki Roberts.
1:50.8	Thank you.
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