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1998 Martha Gellhorn, war reporter (Reuthers), dies at 89

1998 William Lambert, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, dies at 78

1996 Veronica Guerin, born in Ireland, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau, received death threats, murdered, by drug dealers, dies at 36

1995 Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter, dies at 63

1994 Betty Furness, actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), dies at 78

1994 Klaas Peereboom, Dutch sports reporter (Het Parool), dies at 77

1992 Sjoerd de Free, reporter (Radio Herrijzend Netherland), dies

1992 Brendan Nulholland, Daily Mail reporter, dies at 59

1991 Daily Planet fires cub reporter Jimmy Olson (Superman character)

1990 Paul Wynne, KGO-TV San Francisco reporter, dies of AIDS at 46

1990 New York Newsday reporter Jimmy Breslin suspended for a racial slur

1986 Jane Dornnacker, WNBC-AM New York City helicopter traffic reporter, dies doing a live traffic report as her copter crashes

1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut

1981 Richard Talmadge, actor (Speed Reporter), dies

1976 Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network reporter

1974 Cornelius Ryan, war reporter/historian (Bridge too Far), dies at 54

1967 Tabitha Soren, born in San Antonio, Texas, MTV reporter, This Week in Rock

1964 Jim Koethe, Dallas Times Herald reporter, killed by karate chop

1959 Veronica Guerin,, nicknamed 'Ronnie', journalist, crime reporter, used pseudonyms, street names, exposing underworld figures in the Sunday Independent newspaper, helped found Criminal Assets Bureau

1959 Nancy Remy, reporter, New York City's Shadow Traffic

1956 Lisa J. Allen, TV reporter and lawyer

1954 Michael Scott, reporter, Entertainment Tonight

1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter, NBC-TV

1948 Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist (Raging Reporter), dies at 62

1948 Pat O'Brien, reporter, Entertainment Tonight

1947 1st black reporter in Congressional press gallery (Percival Prattis)

1947 Ann Compton, news reporter, ABC TV

1944 Carl Bernstein, Washington Post investigative reporter, Watergate

1944 1st black reporter accredited to White House, Harry McAlpin

1943 Bob Woodward, investigative reporter, Watergate, CIA crimes

1942 Jack Singer, U.S. war reporter (Wasp), dies

1942 Charlayne Hunter-Gault, Due West, South Carolina, news reporter, McNeil-Lehrer

1941 Willibrord Frequin, Dutch TV reporter

1940 Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter

1940 Michael Brunson, TV reporter/newscaster/actor, Never Say Die

1939 Jane Bryant Quinn, newspaper and television reporter

1937 Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter, New York Times

1934 Barbara Howar, Nashville, reporter, Washington Post, Entertainment Tonight

1934 Arthur Miller, legal reporter

1931 Ruud van den Hende, sports reporter

1931 Robert D Novak, Joliet, Illinois, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak

1929 Jules Verne Berman, space and science reporter, ABC-TV

1921 Rowland Evans, born in White Marsh, Pennsylvania, news reporter, CNN-Evans and Novak

1914 U.S. war reporter Richard H. Davis visits Leuven

1908 Henry Chadwick, sports reporter (baseball), dies at 85

1907 Barend Barendse, Dutch sports reporter

1904 Marya Mannes, New York City, author, The Reporter

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal

1899 British Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill reaches Capetown

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill departs to South Africa

1897 Ad van Emmenes, Dutch soccer reporter

1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House

1892 Robert P Tristram Coffin, poet/reporter, WW II

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, by finishing trip following January in 72 days, 6

1885 Egon E Kisch, Czechoslovakian writer/journalist, Rasende Reporter

1849 Jacob Riis, Denmark, reporter, New York Tribune, New York Evening Sun


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