- Journalist.
- Fox News contributor.
- Longtime friend of Walter Cronkite. They met in Laos during the Vietnam War.
- Graduate of Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
- Has won three Emmy awards and two Overseas Press Club awards.
- Taught journalism at Stern College of Yeshiva University.
- She began her career in 1965, covering the Vietnam War as a correspondent for NBC News and later working for CBS News.
- Former New York bureau chief of the Washington Times.
- Her parents, Gaetano "Thomas" Trotta, a successful pharmacist, and the former Lillian Theresa Mazzacane, were both Catholics who had emigrated from Italy.
- First woman to cover a war for broadcast news.
- Release of her autobiography, "Fighting for Air: In the Trenches with Television News". (1991)
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