Margot Roosevelt

Margot Roosevelt
Born Margot Roosevelt Barmine
August 13, 1950
Education
Lycée Français de New York
Alma mater Harvard University
Occupation Journalist
Spouse(s)
Ralph Hornblower III
(m. 1969; div. 2000)
Children 2
Parent(s) Edith Kermit Roosevelt
Alexander Gregory Barmine
Relatives See Roosevelt family

Margot Roosevelt (Margot Hornblower) is an American journalist who covers the economic news for the Orange County Register. She is a great-granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt.[1]

Early life

Roosevelt is the daughter of Edith Kermit Roosevelt and Alexander Gregory Barmine;[2][3] Roosevelt's maternal grandfather is Archibald Roosevelt, a son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.[4]

She was educated at the Lycée Français de New York[5] and the Ecole Francaise Internationale in Washington, D.C. Roosevelt also attended the University of Madrid, Spain and the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas. She graduated from Harvard University (Radcliffe College)[6] with a degree in history.[7]

Career

Roosevelt's first newspaper job was at the Charlottesville Daily Progress in Virginia.[8] She was also a staff correspondent of the Washington Post for 13 years, during which time she was chief environmental correspondent for three years, congressional correspondent in Washington, D.C. for three years, and New York bureau chief for four years. She joined Time magazine in 1987, reporting from Time's Paris bureau from 1988 to 1994, when she moved to Los Angeles as National Correspondent for Time.[9]

In 2007, Roosevelt joined the Los Angeles Times as an environmental reporter. She was a 2010 National Center for Atmospheric Research Journalism Fellow[10] and 2010 Climate Media Fellow of the Earth Journalism Network.[11] In 2011, Roosevelt received the award for "Distinguished Science Journalism in The Atmospheric and Related Sciences" from the American Meteorological Society.[12]

Since 2012, Roosevelt has covered the economic news and the Southern California economy for the Orange County Register.[13]

Personal life

In 1969, she was married to Ralph Hornblower III.[1] Before their divorce in 2000,[14] She was known as Margot Hornblower[9][15][16] They have two sons.[7]

Roosevelt lived in Sherman Oaks, California in 2009.[17][8]

References

  1. 1 2 "Margot Roosevelt is Wed in Capital". The New York Times. December 21, 1969.
  2. ↑ "Miss Margot Roosevelt to Marry on Dec 20". The New York Times. August 3, 1969.
  3. ↑ "Emily Allen, Samuel Hornblower". The New York Times. June 13, 2009.
  4. ↑ schmoop.com, Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt
  5. ↑ "Class of 1968". Alumni Association of the Lycée Français de New York. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Radcliffe Class Officers". The Harvard Crimson. January 4, 1971.
  7. 1 2 "Margot Roosevelt". Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.
  8. 1 2 "Orange County Register Economy Reporter Margot Roosevelt | In the Green Room". Zócalo Public Square. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  9. 1 2 Time, "The Future of Life", Margot Roosevelt Archived December 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
  10. ↑ National Center for Atmospheric Research, Bios for NCAR Journalism Fellows
  11. ↑ Earth Journalism Network, EJN 2010 Climate Media Fellowship for US Journalists
  12. ↑ "2011 AMS Award Recipients" (PDF). American Meteorological Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 14, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Margot Roosevelt". ocregister.com. Orange County Register. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
  14. ↑ "Cynthia Edmunds, Ralph Hornblower III". The New York Times. November 7, 2004. Retrieved April 16, 2011.
  15. ↑ "Margot Hornblower - search results". Time. Archived from the original on December 24, 2014.
  16. ↑ "Margot Roosevelt - search results". Time.
  17. ↑ "Emily Allen, Samuel Hornblower". The New York Times. 13 June 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2018.

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