Rebecca Roberts
{{Short description|American journalist (born 1970)}}
{{For|the strongwoman|Rebecca Roberts (strongwoman)}}
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| birth_name = Rebecca Boggs Roberts
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1970}}
| birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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| known_for = Radio personality
| education = Princeton University (BA)
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| occupation = Journalist
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| spouse = {{marriage|Daniel Jay Hartman |1997}}The New York Times, [https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/31/style/rebecca-roberts-daniel-hartman.html Wedding Announcement] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171230015347/http://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/31/style/rebecca-roberts-daniel-hartman.html |date=2017-12-30 }}, 8/31/1997. Retrieved 1/5/10.
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| parents = Steven V. Roberts
Cokie Roberts
| relations = Hale Boggs (grandfather)
Lindy Boggs (grandmother)
Barbara Boggs Sigmund (aunt)
Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. (uncle)
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Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is the Curator of Programming at Planet Word, and was formerly an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS '08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election. She served as a substitute host for Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Weekend Edition Sunday on National Public Radio.National Public Radio, [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10169278 Rebecca Roberts Biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110232751/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10169278 |date=2010-11-10 }}, Retrieved 1/5/10.
Biography
Born to reporters Cokie (née Boggs) and Steve Roberts, Roberts earned a B.A. in political science from Princeton University.
Roberts began with Shorr & Associates, a political media firm in Philadelphia. She was technology reporter for The World, a radio program produced by the BBC and Public Radio International, for four years. She hosted Your Call, a local call-in program, on KALW in San Francisco and moved to Washington, D.C., to host The Intersection, a news talk show, on WETA from 2006 to 2007. For NPR, she has reported on such diverse topics as the US immigration debate, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, transgenic goats, amateur astronomers, Bikram yoga, and Icelandic geysers.
She served as Program Director of the Congressional Cemetery.{{cite web |title=Insider's Guide: Rebecca Roberts, Program Director at the Historic Congressional Cemetery |website= Cultural Tourism DC |url=http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/blog/insiders-guide-rebecca-roberts-program-director-historic-congressional-cemetery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113164947/http://www.culturaltourismdc.org:80/blog/insiders-guide-rebecca-roberts-program-director-historic-congressional-cemetery |archive-date=January 13, 2012 |date=October 27, 2011 |url-status=dead}}
Works
Roberts' books include:
- {{Cite book| publisher = Arcadia Publishing Library Editions| isbn = 978-1-5316-6228-8| last1 = Roberts| first1 = Rebecca Boggs|author-mask1=with |last2 = Schmidt| first2 = Sandra K.| title = Historic Congressional Cemetery| date = 2012}}
- {{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Rebecca Boggs |author-mask=0 |title=Suffragists in Washington, D.C. : The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote |location=Charleston, SC |isbn=978-1625859402 |date=2017}}
- {{cite book |last1=Robb |first1=Lucinda |last2=Boggs Roberts |first2=Rebecca |title=The Suffragist Playbook : Your Guide to Changing the World |location=Somerville, Massachusetts |isbn=978-1536210330 |edition=First |date=2020}}
- {{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Rebecca Boggs |author-mask=0 |title=Untold Power: The Fascinating Rise and Complex Legacy of First Lady Edith Wilson |location=New York City, NY |isbn=978-0593489994 |date=2023}}
References
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External links
- {{C-SPAN|63398}}
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Category:21st-century American women journalists
Category:Princeton University alumni
Category:Roberts family (journalism)
Category:21st-century American journalists