Margot Roosevelt

Margot Roosevelt (Margot Hornblower) is an American journalist. She worked for 13 years at The Washington Post, for 20 years at TIME, and was at the Los Angeles Times from 2007 to 2011.[1] Her fields have included foreign affairs, US Congress, and the environment, including climate change and air pollution.[1] She is a fellow of the University of Southern California's Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.[2]

Background

Roosevelt is the daughter of Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Alexander Gregory Barmine;[3][4] Roosevelt's maternal grandfather is Archibald Roosevelt, the son of US President Theodore Roosevelt.[5] Roosevelt graduated from Radcliffe College in 1971[6] with a degree in history,[2] having graduated from the Lycée Français de New York in 1968.[7] She married Ralph Hornblower III on December 20, 1969;[8] they subsequently divorced[9] three decades later. She was known as Margot Hornblower[10] from 1969[8] to 2000.[11][12] She has two sons, Sam and Luke Hornblower.[2]

Career

Roosevelt was a staff correspondent of the Washington Post for 13 years, during which time she was the Post's New York bureau chief for four years, congressional correspondent in Washington, D.C. for three years, and chief environmental correspondent for three years. She joined TIME in 1987, reporting from TIME's Paris bureau from 1988 to 1994, when she moved to Los Angeles.[10]

Roosevelt was a 2010 National Center for Atmospheric Research Journalism Fellow[13] and 2010 Climate Media Fellow of the Earth Journalism Network.[14] In 2011, Roosevelt received the award for "Distinguished Science Journalism in The Atmospheric and Related Sciences" from the American Meteorological Society.[15]

References

  1. ^ a b Los Angeles Times, Greenspace
  2. ^ a b c University of Southern California, Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities, Margot Roosevelt
  3. ^ New York Times, August 3, 1969, Miss Margot Roosevelt to Marry on Dec 20
  4. ^ New York Times, June 13, 2009, Emily Allen, Samuel Hornblower
  5. ^ schmoop.com, Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
  6. ^ Radcliffe Class Officers Harvard Crimson January 4, 1971
  7. ^ Alumni Association of the Lycée Français de New York, Class of 1968, accessed 16 April 2011.
  8. ^ a b New York Times December 21, 1969, Margot Roosevelt is Wed in Capital
  9. ^ "Cynthia Edmunds, Ralph Hornblower III". The New York Times. November 7, 2004. http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/fashion/weddings/07EDMU.html. Retrieved April 16, 2011. 
  10. ^ a b TIME, "The Future of Life", Margot Roosevelt
  11. ^ Time, "margot hornblower"
  12. ^ Time, "margot roosevelt"
  13. ^ National Center for Atmospheric Research, Bios for NCAR Journalism Fellows
  14. ^ Earth Journalism Network, EJN 2010 Climate Media Fellowship for US Journalists
  15. ^ "2011 AMS AWARD RECIPIENTS". American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original on April 14, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5xwozkB5L.