Bestselling Author
Political Analyst for ABC News
NPR Senior News Analyst
Co-Anchor, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts, 1996-2002
Cokie Roberts has covered Congress, politics and public policy for nearly 20 years at ABC News. She also serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the Congressional Correspondent for more than ten years. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, Ms. Roberts has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Ms. Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts are also contributing editors to USA Magazine.
Cokie Roberts is also a highly acclaimed bestselling author. In Ladies of Liberty, a follow up to her bestselling book Founding Mothers (2004), she examines the lives and times of the incredible women who have helped shape America. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals and other primary sources, and filled with entertaining gossip from the early days of the capital, this second installment captures the great shift that occurred in American history as the country continued its expansion. Throughout, Ms. Roberts captures the heart and soul of the American spirit and offers new insights on the women who helped make our nation great. Other bestsellers include, From this Day Forward (2001), a book she co-authored with her husband Steve Roberts, about their more than 40-year marriage and other marriages in American history and We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters (1998), an account of women’s roles and relationships throughout American history.
Cokie Roberts also serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and this year was appointed to the newly formed President’s Commission on Service and Civic Participation. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six.
Ms. Roberts resides in Washington, D.C.
Cokie Roberts has covered Congress, politics and public policy for nearly 20 years at ABC News. She also serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the Congressional Correspondent for more than ten years. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, Ms. Roberts has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Ms. Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts are also contributing editors to USA Magazine. 