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Washington, DC journalists in the 20th Century

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Eleanor Elizabeth "Lyn" Stern (1915 - 1997)
Lyn Crost was a World War II correspondent and author.
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Bob Edwards (1947 - 2024)
Bob Edwards was an American broadcast journalist who was a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He hosted both of National Public Radio's flagship news programs: the afterno...
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Nina Haskell
Nina Reines Haskell (Totenberg) is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. H...
Shirley Lewis Povich (1905 - 1998)
Shirley Povich by Ralph Berger As baseball grew more popular, people wanted to keep up with a sport in which half of the season was spent on the road away from the hometown. Also, people had to work,...
Harry Brandt Ayers (1935 - 2020)
publisher who turned The Anniston Star into a voice for integration in the 1960s. Ayers was the archetype of a heroic band of southern newspaper proprietors who risked their lives, fortunes, and sacred...

A selective listing of reporters, editors, columnists and commentators who covered national affairs from Washington, DC. in the 20th Century.