It had been finished much earlier in the day and was safely on videotape, which is why I could leave the office in time to watch with them. Letting her know when she could catch me in action on television was one of those rituals that just made me feel good.īut I'd never before been in the same room while it happened.Īs Larry clicked on the TV, I stood aside, watching Peter Jennings open World News Tonight and trying to recall where in the lineup my piece was running. I was in awe of her guts and her accomplishments, and I loved making her happy. A visit from her son always lifted her spirits the two of us together made her beam. By then in her late eighties, after a lifetime of success at a business she had created, her body was failing and she rarely left home. 'Let's watch.'Diana Hilford smiled with anticipation. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarksįailure Is Impossible: Susan B.'Lynn has a story on the news tonight,' he told her.

Sherr was featured in the Jewish Women's Archive web feature Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution. Sherr has rejected calls for a 'new feminism' and remarked, 'What's wrong with the old feminism?' She strongly criticized Sarah Palin for calling herself a feminist: 'What, exactly, has she done legislatively for other women? What paths has she forged?' She also hosted PPFA's Maggie Awards luncheon in 2010. She has twice (in 19) been the recipient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) Margaret Sanger Award (known as the 'Maggie'), which is awarded to journalists for 'exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues' in the view of PPFA. Goldberg for the 'Hunger Inside' a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia. She received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award along with producer Alan B. She is the author of Outside the Box: A Memoir, published in September 2006, which chronicles her life on and off TV, including her husband's death from cancer as well as her own battle with colon cancer. In 2008, she left the television network ABC after working with them for 31 years.

In 1983–85 she was a reporter/editor for Condé Nast. In 1977, she was the guest host of the MacNeil–Lehrer Report while Robert MacNeil was absent, and has hosted a number of PBS specials. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV. She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York City, then staff. Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. Lynn Sherr (born March 4, 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20.

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