After more than 50 years with the network, CBS News correspondent Rita Braver has announced plans to retire from the outlet later this month.
Braver joined CBS News in 1972 as a producer before eventually ascending to the role of chief law correspondent for the news division in 1983. She later was tabbed as Chief White House Correspondent during the first term of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
Since 1998, Rita Braver has served as a national correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning.
During her long tenure, she has won nine national Emmy Awards. Additionally, she has won the Joan Barone Award presented by the Congressional Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association, and the Star Award from American Women in Radio and Television. She was also named an Outstanding Mother by the National Mother’s Day Committee.
In a statement to Variety, CBS Sunday Morning executive producer Rand Morrison shared his appreciation for Rita Braver.
“In her decades at Sunday Morning, she’s done it all: breaking news, soft features, political issue pieces, stories on art and theater, and personality profiles,” said Morrison. “If we had a story, Rita always had the interest and always made the time … To call it this end of an era barely does justice to the challenges we’ll face now that we can no longer pick up the phone and call on Rita.”
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