Edith Lederer | |
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 Lederer in 2016 | |
| Born | 1943 (age 80–81) |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Edie Lederer |
| Education | Cornell University (BS) Stanford University (MA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Edith Lederer, also known as Edie Lederer (born 1943) is an American war journalist. [1]
Lederer grew up in Long Island. In 1963, Lederer received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and Master of Arts in communications from Stanford University. [2]
Lederer worked with Jean Heller at the Associated Press (AP) New York City headquarters at 50 Rockefeller Plaza. [3] In 1968, while working at the AP's San Francisco bureau, Lederer met Peter Buxtun and he spoke to her about his ethical concerns regarding the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Lederer recognized the newsworthiness of the information and passed it on to a colleague, Associated Press investigative reporter Jean Heller, who broke the story, resulting in the ending of the study. [3]
Lederer was the first female resident correspondent in Vietnam [4] in 1971 [2] and the first woman to head a foreign bureau for the AP, [5] in Lima, Peru in 1975. [6] She worked for the AP for five decades, becoming the chief correspondent at the United Nations. She was named Sigma Delta Tau's Outstanding Alumna in 2017. [7] She won four lifetime achievement awards from the Overseas Press Club, the International Women's Media Foundation, [8] the Washington Press Club Foundation and the Newswomen's Club of New York. She co-authored "War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Who Covered Vietnam." [9]
The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis. The purpose of the study was to observe the effects of the disease when untreated, though by the end of the study medical advancements meant it was entirely treatable. The men were not informed of the nature of the experiment, and more than 100 died as a result.
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