Journalists, lawmakers remember Cokie Roberts as a broadcast 'pioneer'

Cokie Roberts.
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Political journalist and author Cokie Roberts died Tuesday due to complications from breast cancer, her family has announced. She was 75.

Roberts spent decades covering politics with ABC News and NPR, anchoring ABC News' This Week for 6 years and continuing as a commentator for years after. News of her death brought dozens of commemorations from journalists she worked beside and inspired, and even from lawmakers she reported on from both sides of the aisle.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.