Lynn Sherr
Journalist, Author
1942 –
Who is Lynn Sherr?
Lynn Sherr is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20.
Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College.
She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York, then staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV. 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. In 1983–85 she was a reporter/editor for Condé Nast.
She received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award along with producer Alan B. Goldberg for the "Hunger Inside" a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1942
Philadelphia - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Wellesley College
- Lower Merion High School
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
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on July 23, 2013
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