Ruth Ashton Taylor, trailblazing journalist who had 50-year career in radio and TV, dies at age 101
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Ruth Ashton Taylor, a trailblazing journalist who was the first female newscaster to work in television on the West Coast, has died
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. -- Ruth Ashton Taylor, a trailblazing journalist who was the first female newscaster to work in television on the West Coast, has died. She was 101.
Taylor died Thursday at an assisted living facility in San Rafael, California, according to her family.
No cause of death was released. “She died very suddenly,” her daughter, Laurel Conklin, said Sunday.
Conklin said her mother was born in Long Beach in 1922 and had a career in radio and television news that spanned more than 50 years.
Taylor graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, California, and earned a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University before taking a job as a news writer and producer at CBS radio in New York.
