- She has one child: actor Josh Stamberg.
- Attended and graduated from Barnard College in Manhattan, New York City (1959).
- She was awarded the Edward R. Murrow Award (Corporation for Public Broadcasting) (1980).
- Inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame (1994) and the National Radio Hall of Fame (1996).
- She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6363 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 3, 2020.
- She was the first woman to hold a full-time position as anchorwoman of a national nightly news broadcast in the United States.
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