Elizabeth Farnsworth

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Elizabeth Farnsworth (born 1943) is an American television news anchorwoman.

Early life and education

Farnsworth was born Elizabeth Fink in 1943 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to a family of farmers, teachers, doctors and railroad executives.

She is a graduate of Topeka High School and Middlebury College. She earned an M.A. in Latin American History from Stanford University and lived in Peru and Chile for extended periods. Farnsworth is an expert on South America.

Career

In 1984 she became a contributing correspondent to the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, later known as The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. In 1995 she became chief correspondent and principal substitute anchor, and in 1999 became senior correspondent and head of the San Francisco office.

She is married to attorney Charles Farnsworth and has two children and two grandchildren, and currently resides in Berkeley, California.

In 2008, Farnsworth and co-producer/director Patricio Lanfranco released The Judge and the General a feature-length documentary film about Judge Juan Guzmán's attempts to bring Augusto Pinochet to justice for human rights crimes. The film garnered a 2009 Directors Guild of America nomination for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and a 2009 Emmy award nomination for Best Historical Documentary.

References

"Off-Camera: Elizabeth Farnsworth". Online NewsHour. PBS. Retrieved 2013-08-21.

External links

Elizabeth Farnsworth at NNDB
Elizabeth Fink Farnsworth at Middlebury College
The Judge and the General at West Wind Productions

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