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Ruth Ashton Taylor, Pioneering Broadcast Journalist, Dies at 101
Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneering radio and TV journalist who became a fixture on the air in Los Angeles, has died at age 101.
Ruth Ashton Taylor, a pioneering TV and radio journalist who worked with Edward R. Murrow at CBS News and was a fixture on the air in Los Angeles for decades, has died. Taylor left TV in 1952 in favor of working for KNX and hosting “The Women’s News Desk” program that was syndicated to other CBS-affiliated stations in Western states. By 1959, however, she quit KNX out of frustration over sponsor pressures and the station’s decision to push her to cover department store openings and other events, according to Marteney’s “An Oral History of Ruth Ashton Taylor: Broadcast News Pioneer.”
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