By Chris Hoenig
Lee Thornton, the first Black woman to earn the coveted White House beat for one of the nation’s major news networks, has died.
Thornton covered the Carter administration for CBS News starting in 1977, just three years after joining the network. After leaving the White House, she became the first Black co-host on NPR’s All Things Considered, joining the program on weekends in 1982. Thornton then moved to CNN, where she produced Both Sides With Jesse Jackson in the early ’90s.
