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Lee Thornton, Famed Journalist and Former NPR Host, Dies

Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Lee Thornton (Courtesy of the University of Maryland) Lee Thornton, a former CNN and CBS correspondent and the interim dean for the University of Maryland’s journalism school, died Sept. 25 after a brief illness. She was 71. Thorton had been battling pancreatic cancer, journalism website Mediabistro reported. Thornton […]