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Ruth Ashton Taylor Dies: First Female Television Newscaster In Los Angeles Was 101

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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 career in journalism and earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Among the honors she received in acknowledgment of her decades-long career was a Lifetime Achievement Emmy.

Born in Long Beach in 1922, she graduated from Scripps College in Claremont and Columbia University for graduate school. Taylor was hired to join a CBS documentary team led by Edward R.

Murrow. She returned to Los Angeles in 1951 and was hired as the West Coast’s first female television reporter at KNXT, now KCBS.

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