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Ruth Ashton Taylor Dies: First Female Television Newscaster In Los Angeles Was 101
Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneer as the first female television newscaster in Los Angeles and one of the first in the country, died Thursday in Northern California. She was 101. Taylor had a 50-year c…
Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneer as the first female television newscaster in Los Angeles and one of the first in the country, died Thursday in Northern California. She returned to Los Angeles in 1951 and was hired as the West Coast’s first female television reporter at KNXT, now KCBS. She left journalism for a short time in the late 1950s before returning to KNXT in 1962, where she spent the rest of her career before retiring in 1989.
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