Edith m lederer biography of nancy
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Edith Lederer
The Associated Press, United States.
In her more than four decades with the Associated Press, Edith Lederer has worked on every continent except Antarctica covering wars, famines, nuclear issues and political upheavals.
Lederer, 65, began working as the chief correspondent at the United Nations for the AP in 1998. Since then, she has reported on the diplomatic side of conflicts in Darfur, Iraq, Kosovo, Congo, Sierra Leone and East Timor and major global issues, from Iran’s nuclear program and climate change to aging and women’s rights.
Lederer grew up on Long Island and received a B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1963 and an M.A. degree in communications from Stanford University the following year. Soon after, she landed her first journalism job at Science Service, a Scripps-Howard syndicate in Washington, D.C.
After about a year, Lederer left that job and traveled around Europe for several months with a friend, a trip that inspired her to