Susan Spencer is an American television news reporter and correspondent for '' 48 Hours Mystery and CBS Sunday Morning''. Spencer was born in Memphis,

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. She graduated from

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in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in communications and German literature. The following year, she completed her master's in journalism from Columbia University.

Career

From 1971 to 1972, Spencer worked as a researcher for CBS-owned

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in New York. She was also a writer and producer for public affairs broadcast at WKPC-TV in Louisville, Kentucky. From 1972 to 1977, she worked for

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-based CBS station

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, where she was reporter and co-anchor. She joined

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' Washington bureau in 1977 and became a correspondent in 1978. In 1986, she was named medical correspondent for CBS News. She anchored the CBS Sunday Night News from 1987 to 1988. Also from 1987 through 1988, she was a substitute anchor and from 1988 through 1989, anchor of the Sunday edition of ''

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''. In 1989, she reported on the death of

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of Japan and Tiananmen Square protests. A year later, based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Spencer reported major international events such as the

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. As national correspondent, she also covered the first inauguration of President

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and the re-election campaign of President George Herbert Walker Bush. She was then CBS News' White House correspondent and the main correspondent for its "Eye on America" segments. In 1993, she was named a correspondent for ''48 Hours'', covering subjects ranging from drug wars in Colombia to custody battles in the United States.

Awards

Spencer has been recognized with

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s for her ''48 Hours'' stories, an Environmental Defense Fund Award, and a RTNDA Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence for a story about the struggle of a child to find a match for an organ transplant. Susan's husband Thomas Oliphant is a former political columnist for the ''

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''.

References

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