Америкалық журналист Мэри Тиллотсонның өмірі мен қызметі

American journalist

Mary Tillotson (previously known as Mary Wright, fl. 1970) is an American broadcast journalist formerly with CNN, for whom she was a White House correspondent and host of CNN & Co.

Tillotson grew up in Tuscaloosa, and attended the University of Alabama majoring in journalism.

She worked for WSB in Atlanta, Georgia from 1970 to 1975. She was hired by CNN in 1981, and from 1985 to 1988 and 1991 1993 was the CNN White House correspondent. From 1988 to 1991 she was a Congressional correspondent. She covered the 1984 presidential campaign, including the Democratic National Convention, and the 1988 Republican and Democratic National Conventions, as well as the 1992 presidential campaign; she also covered two international summits between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. President Bush replied: "I'm not going to take any sleazy questions like that from CNN." Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater later said that Tillotson "will never work around the White House again," The New York Times reported. There, she became a faculty member of the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at the University of Alabama, During her lectures, she has given classes on the nature of news and newsmaking, and how public policy topics are reflected in the news.

By 2014, she was known to have retired from journalism. Since that year through 2015, she has also given, and continues to give speeches in her home state of Alabama about her life and work. Tillotson has supported the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama.