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Cokie Roberts. Photo: Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post/Getty Images
Award-winning journalist and political commentator Cokie Roberts has died at the age of 75, reports ABC News.
The big picture: Roberts was a pioneer for women in journalism. She shaped the earliest coverage at NPR in the 1970s, won numerous awards for her work at ABC and authored six bestsellers on women in America. In addition, she was named one of the 50 greatest women in broadcast journalism by the American Women in Radio and Television.