Dorothy Thompson
American journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
Biography
Dorothy Thompson was born in Lancaster, New York in 1893 and worked as a journalist, newspaperperson, and writer. She was the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and broadcast radio commentary during the 1930s, when few women held such positions. Time magazine identified her in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt. The Library of Congress selected recordings of her NBC Radio analysis of European affairs and World War II for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023. She died in 1961.
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Dorothy Thompson is recorded as a newspaperperson, a journalist and a writer, born in New York (1893–1961).
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