A week before Koko Da Doll's death, another Black transgender woman was killed in Atlanta. When Sandra Bookman started working for Eyewitness News in 1998, her career took off, and it wasnt 3. Sandra Bookman. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. Sherr had a31-year career at ABC News, where she became the longest-running female correspondent at what was to become one of the most important shows in the networks history, 20/20.. In 2009, Davis reported on the Miracle on the Hudson and Michael Jacksons death. NBC chief White House correspondent, then PBS Washington correspondent and anchor, later at CNN from 1993 to 2003 as host of Inside Politics; and since 2013, anchor of NewsHour, a role she shared with another pioneer, Gwen Ifil, until her death last year. Davis also anchored the documentary Homegrown Hate: The War Among Us, which shed a spotlight on the issue of domestic terrorism and hate-inspired violence in the United States. ABC News News Team Period. Amanpour is shown with Hillary Rodham CLinton atCNN's Town Hall interviewJune 17, 2014, in New York. ", Privacy Policy |Terms of service |Subscription terms |Your ad choices |Cookie Settings |California Privacy Rights |About Us |Contact Newsday |Reprints & permissions |Advertise with Newsday |Help. female ABC news anchors Linsey Davis After a run in morning news, she was named a correspondent at 60 Minutes the first woman in the role and later was lured by Roone Arledge to join ABC, in the biggest network talent raid since Barbara Walters joined the network a decade earlier. In 1976 Walters became the first female co-anchor of a network evening news, the ABC Evening News. WebABC News Anchors and Correspondents (National) - Female. Stahlwas also a moderator of Face the Nation from 1983 to 91, only the second woman to hold such a job since Martha Rountree decades before. The daily and hourly news updates are delivered by a number of female anchors at ABC News who are knowledgeable and well-known in the journalism industry. Reporting is no easy job - some of these female journalists were also kidnapped, held hostage, or even had meltdowns on live TV.