Cokie Roberts, Emmy-winning journalist and political commentator, dies at 75

Cokie Roberts, a journalist and political commentator who won three Emmy Awards during a long career with NPR and ABC News, has died at 75. Her death was announced Tuesday by ABC. Additional details were not immediately available. Roberts was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and named a “living legend” by the Library of Congress in 2008. She was born Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs, and said her older brother nicknamed her Cokie because he couldn’t pronounce Corinne. Roberts received a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College in political science in 1964 and soon joined CBS on the radio, as a foreign correspondent. She covered Capitol Hill for NPR beginning in 1978, when she reported on the Panama Canal Treaty, then served as congressional correspondent for more than a decade, according to ABC News. Survivors include her husband, journalist Steven V. Roberts; two children; and six grandchildren.