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Lynn Sherr
Award-winning broadcaster and author Lynn Sherr recently left ABC News full-time after more than thirty years, including more than twenty as a correspondent with the ABC News magazine 20/20.
She has covered a wide range of stories, specializing in women's issues and social change, science and nature, as well as investigative reports. She has received numerous awards, including an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, and, among other honors, a George Foster Peabody Award. Among her most memorable 20/20 reports: a groundbreaking story about a Canadian woman who saved youngsters stricken with anorexia; the eye-opening saga of a young woman who went from being homeless on the streets of New York to a scholarship at Harvard; and one of the first network television pieces on the hole in the ozone layer. Most recently, for the PBS program Worldfocus, she traveled to Nicaragua to examine the lives of women in coffee-producing communities; to Guatemala, to reveal the devastation of maternal mortality; and to Liberia to produce a series of reports on the economic empowerment of women, including an exclusive interview with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Africa's first female elected head of state.
Prior to her assignment at 20/20, Sherr was a national correspondent for ABCNEWS, where she was also part of the network's political team for every election cycle through 2000. Sherr also reported on the NASA space shuttle program from its inception in 1981 through the Challenger explosion in 1986, anchoring almost every mission from launch to landing.
Before coming to ABC in 1977, Sherr was a reporter for WNET-TV in New York and WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., both public television stations. Prior to that, she reported for WCBS-TV in New York, and The Associated Press in New York and Conde Nast Publications. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, where she served as a trustee.
Sherr's memoir, Outside the Box: My Unscripted Life of Love, Loss and Television News, recounts her pioneering role as one of the first wave of women in broadcast news. She has also written Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words; and is co-author of Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks, and 10 editions of "The Women's Calendar." Her bestselling book, Tall Blondes, offered a perceptive and highly praised look at one of wildlife's most endearing but little-understood animals -giraffes- and was also the subject of a one-hour documentary for the PBS Nature program. She also hosted the 25th anniversary celebration of Nature on PBS, "The Best of Nature." Her bestselling book, America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song, came out in 2001. She conceived and co-edited Peter Jennings: A Reporter's Life, which was published in 2007.
She wrote the Foreword to The Mercury 13: The Untold Story of Thirteen American Women and the Dream of Space Flight and to Smart Women Don't Retire: They Break Free.
Her articles have appeared in numerous print publications, including The New York Times, Town + Country, Reader's Digest, Mademoiselle, House and Garden, and More Magazine.
Today she is a Contributing Editor at More Magazine, writes online for The Daily Beast, broadcasts with PBS' Worldfocus and occasionally hosts on public radio. She regularly speaks to women's groups, journalism classes and meetings of cancer professionals, where she describes her own role as a survivor of colon cancer.
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