{{short description|American broadcast journalist and author (born 1942)}} {{Infobox writer <!--For more information, see :Template:Infobox Writer/doc.--> | name = Lynn Sherr | image = Lynn sherr 3046.JPG | alt = | caption = Sherr at the 2014 National Book Festival | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1942|03|4}} | birth_place = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. | death_date = <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Broadcast journalist | language = | citizenship = | education = Lower Merion High School | alma_mater = Wellesley College | period = | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = | notableworks = <!-- or: | notablework = --> | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = 1994 George Foster Peabody Award | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> | genres = History, biography }} '''Lynn Sherr''' (born March 4, 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine ''20/20''.
==Life== Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore. She received a B.A. from Wellesley College.
She was a freelance host at WNET-TV in New York City, then staff. She worked for the Associated Press and WCBS-TV. In 1977, she was the guest host of the MacNeil–Lehrer Report while Robert MacNeil was absent, and has hosted a number of PBS specials. In 1983–85 she was a reporter/editor for Condé Nast. In 1986, Sherr was a candidate for NASA's Journalist in Space Project and became one of the finalists.
In 2008, Sherr left the television network ABC after working with them for 31 years. She is the author of ''Outside the Box: A Memoir'', published in September 2006, which chronicles her life on and off TV, including her husband's death from cancer as well as her own battle with colon cancer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.californiawomen.org/sitemap/|title=Sitemap}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Ariens|first1=Chris|title=Lynn Sherr on Leaving ABC: "It's a Very Different Audience, with Very Different Demands"|url=http://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/lynn-sherr-on-leaving-abc-its-a-very-different-audience-with-very-different-demands/22284|website=TVNewser|date=7 October 2008 |access-date=16 November 2016}}</ref>
She received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award along with producer Alan B. Goldberg for the "Hunger Inside" a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia.
==Feminism== Sherr is a feminist.
With Jurate Kazickas, Sherr published the ''Liberated Women's Appointment Calendar and Survival Handbook'' annually for ten years, beginning in 1971.
Also with Kazickas, Sherr published the ''American Woman's Gazetteer'' in 1976, listing places in the US where women had featured in historic events; an updated version, titled ''Susan B. Anthony Slept Here'', was published in 1994.<ref name=love>{{cite book |last1=Love |first1=Barbara J. |author-link=Barbara Love|title=Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 |date=September 22, 2006 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-03189-2 |page=247 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kpNarH7t9CkC |language=en}}</ref>
Sherr has twice (in 1989 and 1992) been the recipient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) Margaret Sanger Award (known as the "Maggie"), which is awarded to journalists for "exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues" in the view of PPFA.<ref name="Maggie">{{Cite web|url=https://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/rachel-maddow-glamour-magazine-ajcs-cynthia-tucker-among-planned-parenthoods-2010-maggie-award|title=Rachel Maddow, Glamour Magazine, and the AJC's Cynthia Tucker Among Planned Parenthood's 2010 Maggie Award Winners|website=www.plannedparenthood.org}}</ref> She also hosted PPFA's Maggie Awards luncheon in 2010.<ref name="Maggie" />
Sherr has rejected calls for a "new feminism" and remarked, "What's wrong with the old feminism?"<ref name="newser">{{Cite web|url=https://www.mediabistro.com/jobs/landingpage/369599/tv-newser/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091215094018/http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abc/lynn_sherr_on_leaving_abc_its_a_very_different_audience_with_very_different_demands_96701.asp|url-status=dead|title=TVNewser | Jobs in TV News|archive-date=December 15, 2009|website=www.mediabistro.com}}</ref> She strongly criticized Sarah Palin for calling herself a feminist: "What, exactly, has she done legislatively for other women? What paths has she forged?"<ref name="newser" />
Sherr was featured in the Jewish Women's Archive web feature ''Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jwa.org/feminism|title=Feminism | Jewish Women's Archive|website=jwa.org}}</ref>
==Published works== {| class="wikitable" !Title!!Year!!ISBN!!Publisher!!Subject matter!!Interviews, presentations, and reviews!!Comments |- |''Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks''||1994||{{ISBN|9780812922233}}||Three Rivers Press|| || ||Co-author with Jurate Kazickas |- |''[https://books.google.com/books?id=2po16sEMd7AC Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words]''||1996||{{ISBN|9780307765291}}||Crown Publishing Group||Susan B. Anthony||[https://www.c-span.org/video/?63336-1/failure-impossible-susan-b-anthony ''Booknotes'' interview with Sherr on ''Failure Is Impossible'', May 5, 1995], C-SPAN|| |- |''[https://books.google.com/books?id=S-_hGFoQ5VoC Tall Blondes: A Book About Giraffes]''||1997||{{ISBN|9780836227697}}||Andrews McMeel Publishing||Giraffes|| || |- |''[https://archive.org/details/americabeautiful00sher America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nations's Favorite Song]''||2001||{{ISBN|9781586480851}}||PublicAffairs||''America the Beautiful''||[https://www.c-span.org/video/?167724-1/america-beautiful Discussion with Sherr on ''America the Beautiful'', November 27, 2001], C-SPAN|| |- |''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MywNPYuSXNIC Outside the Box: A Memoir]''||2006||{{ISBN|9781605297866}}||Rodale Press|| ||[https://www.c-span.org/video/?194768-1/outside-box-memoir Presentation by Sherr on ''Outside the Box'', October 4, 2006], C-SPAN|| |- |''[https://books.google.com/books?id=bBeqi5rqR7kC Swim: Why We Love the Water]''||2012||{{ISBN|9781610390477}}||PublicAffairs||Swimming|| || |- |''[https://archive.org/details/sallyrideamerica0000sher Sally Ride: America's First Woman in Space]''||2014 ||{{ISBN|9781476725789}}||Simon and Schuster||Sally Ride||[https://www.c-span.org/video/?320145-1/sally-ride Presentation by Sherr on ''Sally Ride'', June 25, 2014], C-SPAN <br> [https://www.c-span.org/video/?321162-6/sally-ride Presentation by Sherr on ''Sally Ride'', August 30, 2014], C-SPAN <br> [https://www.c-span.org/video/?324264-2/sally-ride Presentation by Sherr on ''Sally Ride'', February 14, 2015], C-SPAN|| |}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=126383 ABC News 20/20 profile] <!-- note, very confusingly written --> * {{IMDb name|0792636}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100501025926/http://www.giraffeconservation.org/our_patrons.php The Giraffe Conservation Foundation] where Lynn Sherr is a Founding Patron. *{{C-SPAN|4723}}
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