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Lynn Sherr | |
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 Sherr at the 2014 National Book Festival | |
| Born | March 4, 1942 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Broadcast journalist |
| Education | Lower Merion High School |
| Alma mater | Wellesley College |
| Genres | History, biography |
| Notable awards | 1994 George Foster Peabody Award |
Lynn Sherr (born March 4, 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20 .
Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College.
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 MacNeil–Lehrer Report while Robert MacNeil was absent, and has hosted a number of PBS specials. In 1983–85 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. [1] [2]
She received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award along with producer Alan B. Goldberg for the "Hunger Inside" a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia.
Sherr is a feminist. She has twice (in 1989 and 1992) been the recipient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) Margaret Sanger Award (known as the "Maggie"), which is awarded to journalists for "exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues" in the view of PPFA. [3] She also hosted PPFA's Maggie Awards luncheon in 2010. [3]
Sherr has rejected calls for a "new feminism" and remarked, "What's wrong with the old feminism?" [4] She strongly criticized Sarah Palin for calling herself a feminist: "What, exactly, has she done legislatively for other women? What paths has she forged?" [4]
Sherr was featured in the Jewish Women's Archive web feature Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution. [5]
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