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For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org. Nina Totenberg, left, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg pose backstage at the 22nd annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards at Carnegie Hall, Nov. 12, 2012, in New York City. But the creme de la creme is Nina Totenberg.". Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed newsmagazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. ", Totenberg has been honored seven times by the American Bar Association for continued excellence in legal reporting and has received more than two dozen honorary degrees. This is terrible and an incredibly hard thing to be this open about. “Totenberg dismissed concerns that her closeness with Ginsburg — and similarly with the late justice Antonin Scalia — was in any way compromising to her journalism. Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. . it was very boring and so, well, we did what lots of other women do. “This office of the Public Editor was created to ensure NPR is responsive to the concerns of listeners and to help NPR remain steadfast in its mission to present fair, accurate and comprehensive information in service of democracy,” NPR’s website says. Totenberg was named Broadcaster of the Year and honored with the 1998 Sol Taishoff Award for Excellence in Broadcasting from the National Press Foundation. “We would become professional friends and later, close friends after she moved to Washington to serve on the federal appeals court here and later, on the U.S. Supreme Court,” Totenberg wrote in her essay. Ginsburg was one of nine women in a class of 500 students at Harvard Law School in 1956 and became the first female member of the Harvard Law Review. Everything is wonderful!!!! The public editor is “a source of independent accountability,” created by the publication’s board of directors to serve “as a bridge between the newsroom and the audience,” according to NPR. "She said that it was my election eve and she was not about to let me be worried and like thousands of other people who have had this experience, she showed up the next day to perform the wedding ceremony -- never told me that anything had happened until after the ceremony, after the dinner," Totenberg recalled. Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg wrote an essay on her 48-year friendship with Ginsburg following the justice’s death Sept. 18, an essay that delves into Ginsburg’s “extraordinary character” but also exposed the “closeness of that Totenberg-Ginsburg relationship,” according to Kelly McBride, NPR’s public editor and senior vice president of the Poynter Institute. "She was such a stand-up person, but she wasn't just a stand-up version for individuals who were her friends, or who she knew about. In 1988, Totenberg won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Silver Baton for her coverage of Supreme Court nominations.

As Newsweek put it, "The mainstays [of NPR] are Morning Edition and All Things Considered. MORE: Ruth Bader Ginsburg thanks female soccer player for donning her initials on her jersey, MORE: 'RBG': What you'll learn from the new Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary. NPR received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for its gavel-to-gavel coverage — anchored by Totenberg — of both the original hearings and the inquiry into Anita Hill's allegations, and for Totenberg's reports and exclusive interview with Hill. September 19, 2020 • NPR's Nina Totenberg first encountered law professor Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 1971. Ginsburg, who was appointed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton served on the high court from 1993, until her death on September 18, 2020. It’s a great benefit to me as a reporter and my listeners.

“First, NPR leaders could have shared the conversations they were having and the precautions they were taking to preserve the newsroom’s independent judgment,” McBride said. Totenberg did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation. Yankees win!!! Totenberg met Ginsburg 50 years ago when she first started covering the court. In the 1970s, Ginsburg began taking up sex discrimination cases with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and co-founded its Women's Rights Project. Nina Totenberg is NPR's award-winning legal affairs correspondent. Totenberg met Ginsburg 50 years ago when she first started covering the court. ", "She was a stand-up person for everyone -- for women, for minorities, for gays. . Ginsburg, who was appointed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton served on the high court from 1993, until her death on September 18, 2020. The making of 'On the Basis of Sex': How Ruth Bader Ginsburg's nephew brought the story to life, Brooklyn municipal building to be renamed for hometown legend Ruth Bader Ginsburg, How Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg became a feminist and pop culture icon for a new generation, Ruth Bader Ginsburg's friend Nina Totenberg opens up: 'She was a stand-up person for America', Gray parrots separated at zoo after swearing a blue streak, Pelosi, Mnuchin fail to strike coronavirus stimulus deal but talks will continue, Suspect arrested in ambush shooting of 2 LA sheriff's deputies, Trump denies knowing 'Proud Boys,' again declines to condemn white supremacy by name.

"I was reading a brief about sex discrimination, I didn't understand it," Totenberg said live Monday on "Good Morning America."

I’m exhausted. . Her image is seen on T-shirts, coffee mugs and tattoos, and she was often portrayed on "Saturday Night Live. Onto the ALDS. I was like a stuffed goose afterwards. (RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: ‘Disgusting Attacks On Her Faith’: Sasse Condemns ‘Anti-Catholic Bigotry’ Against Amy Coney Barrett). A frequent contributor on TV shows, she has also written for major newspapers and periodicals — among them, The New York Times Magazine, The Harvard Law Review, The Christian Science Monitor, and New York Magazine, and others. Instead, she argues that NPR’s listeners benefited from them because her friendships gave her greater insight into and understanding of the justices’ motivations and thinking, which she then conveyed in her reporting,” Farhi wrote for the Post. NPR Supreme Court reporter Nina Totenberg wears a face mask with depictions of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on it during a private ceremony for Justice Ginsburg, on September 23, 2020 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court justice died Friday at the age of 87 due to complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. That same coverage earned Totenberg additional awards, including the Long Island University George Polk Award for excellence in journalism; the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for investigative reporting; the Carr Van Anda Award from the Scripps School of Journalism; and the prestigious Joan S. Barone Award for excellence in Washington-based national affairs/public policy reporting, which also acknowledged her coverage of Justice Thurgood Marshall's retirement. A makeshift memorial for late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg is seen near the steps of the US Supreme Court, Sept. 21, 2020, in Washington, DC. In the latter part of her career, Ginsburg also became a pop culture icon. In 2000, Ginsburg officiated at Totenberg's wedding, but it almost didn't happen when she was hospitalized the night before for a blockage caused by the radiation and chemo she had had, Totenberg said. Her life was the subject of the Hollywood biopic, "On the Basis of Sex" and the 2018 Oscar-nominated documentary "RBG." ", She went on, "And then the next time we met was in person and we were at some conference . Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? (Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images). Totenberg did not speak with NPR’s public editor, but she discussed her relationship with Ginsburg with the Washington Post’s Paul Farhi, dismissing concerns over the closeness of the relationship.