Journalist, Author. A pioneering journalist with Time Magazine, she made great strides for women in the field. Born Veronica Estelle Angelo, her father was the manager of a grocery store, her passion for Journalism began at an early age and while attending Women's College, she served as the editor of her class's yearbook. She cut her teeth in the industry with the Winston-Salem Journal and moved on to Washington with Newsday. Among her early assignments was covering the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and John Glenn's historic orbit around the Earth. After joining the staff at Time Magazine in 1966, she began to gain national exposure and served as co-host of the news television program "Panorama." She served as White House correspondent during the Administration of President Gerald R. Ford and in 1978, she was promoted to bureau chief for Time in London, thus becoming the first woman to hold that position. While at that capacity, she reported on BBC television such events as the beginning of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister (1979) and the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana (1981). In 1998, she was the recipient of International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, she wrote the book "First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents." She died of complications from dementia.
Journalist, Author. A pioneering journalist with Time Magazine, she made great strides for women in the field. Born Veronica Estelle Angelo, her father was the manager of a grocery store, her passion for Journalism began at an early age and while attending Women's College, she served as the editor of her class's yearbook. She cut her teeth in the industry with the Winston-Salem Journal and moved on to Washington with Newsday. Among her early assignments was covering the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy and John Glenn's historic orbit around the Earth. After joining the staff at Time Magazine in 1966, she began to gain national exposure and served as co-host of the news television program "Panorama." She served as White House correspondent during the Administration of President Gerald R. Ford and in 1978, she was promoted to bureau chief for Time in London, thus becoming the first woman to hold that position. While at that capacity, she reported on BBC television such events as the beginning of Margaret Thatcher's tenure as Prime Minister (1979) and the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana (1981). In 1998, she was the recipient of International Women's Media Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, she wrote the book "First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents." She died of complications from dementia.
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