Remembering Veteran Journalist Cokie Roberts, One Of NPR's 'Founding Mothers'

Published September 17, 2019 at 12:52 PM CDT

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Cokie Roberts, a longtime political reporter and analyst at ABC News and NPR, has died. She was 75. (Matt Rourke/AP)

Veteran journalist Cokie Roberts, who reported for NPR News since 1978 and was one of the network’s most recognized voices, has died. She was 75.

Roberts died Tuesday from complications related to breast cancer, her family said in a statement. Here & Now’s Robin Young remembers her legacy with NPR correspondent Mara Liasson and former executive editor of NPR News Madhulika Sikka.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Remembering Veteran Journalist Cokie Roberts, One Of NPR's 'Founding Mothers'

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