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Ceiling-crusher for women in journalism, Frances Lewine, RIP


Lovely review of Frances Lewine from CNN, where she worked for nearly three decades.

Lewine was assigned to the White House in 1956 to cover the activities of first ladies and the Washington social scene. But in 1965 she became the AP’s first full-time female White House correspondent. Video Take a look at Lewine’s career »

In 1977 she left AP to join the administration of President Jimmy Carter, and became the Department of Transportation’s deputy director of public affairs. When Carter left office in 1981, Lewine moved to the newly created Cable News Network — at age 60 — as an assignment producer and field producer.

I love that – at age 60.

More from the Washington Post and HuffPo.

It doesn’t include any recent comments by her on what she thinks about how women in media have or have not progressed over the last two decades, since she left the limelight.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:26 pm January 21st, 2008 in Media, Politics, RIP, Women, Writing 

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