Beverly Broadman was an American

United States

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 journalist who was one of the original reporter for CNN

CNN

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. She joined CNN in 1980, just one month before CNN's first broadcast

Broadcast

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 on the air.

Broadman began her career CNN at CNN Sports, but later held a variety of positions at the cable news network. She was promoted to a news manager at CNN's domestic assignment desk. Broadman had been working at as editor

Editing

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 at the network's news planning desk in the recent years before her death. She covered major world events for CNN, including the 1986 spaceshuttle Challenger

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 explosion and the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.

Beverly Broadman, who was known as Bev, died on March 27, 2008, of cancer

Cancer

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 at the age of 60. CNN President Jim Walton

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 sent a memo

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 to CNN staffers saying: "There is no way I can capture the importance of her contributions over 28 years, so I'll say simply this: Bev was a journalist

Journalist

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, proud of our profession and proud to be part of CNN. We're better because of her."