Sally Quinn

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Sally Quinn (born July 1, 1941) is an American author and journalist. She has worked as a reporter for, among other newspapers, the Washington Post, and is married to the paper's former editor, Benjamin C. Bradlee.

Quinn began as a reporter for the Post with very little experience, but soon became expert at getting subjects to talk more than they'd expect. Henry Kissinger once said "[Post reporter] Maxine Cheshire makes you want to commit murder. Sally Quinn makes you want to commit suicide."

In August 1973, Quinn tried her hand at television, joining CBS News reporter Hughes Rudd as co-anchors of the CBS Morning News.^[1] The show's anchoring team was its first disaster since debuting in 1963 -- ninety minutes before her television debut on August 6, 1973, Quinn, who never reported for television before, collapsed while trying to fight the flu. The next day, she was forced to anchor solo when Rudd's mother passed away. Quinn's ad libs during the show's first week also tended toward the inappropriate -- on one episode, following a report on the children of California migrant farm workers, she quipped that child labor "was how I felt when my mother and father made me clean up my room." Quinn left the CBS Morning News after the February 1, 1974 telecast.

Quinn was critical of President Clinton during the impeachment trial, openly stating he had "fouled the nest" much to the outrage of Clinton who read the column.

Quinn had an acting role in Born Yesterday, the 1993 remake of the 1950 romantic comedy.

Quinn graduated from Smith College in 1963.