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Frances Lewine, a pinoneering woman journalist who fought against discrimination, died Jan. 19. Lewine, who was most recently an assignment editor and field producer for CNN, was a White House correspondent for the Associated Press during the administrations of six presidents. She was one of seven women who filed a class-action lawsuit against the AP in 1978 that led to policy changes on salaries, assignments, promotions, pensions and hiring. Lewine was 86. Read the article in The Washington Post.

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