Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson

writer
journalist
newspaperperson
journalism
🇺🇸United States
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Dorothy Celene Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, in 1934, and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism" and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt.

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1893 – 1961
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85
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11
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Lancaster
Educated at
Syracuse UniversityIllinois Institute of Technology

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