Rebecca Roberts Biography
Rebecca Boggs Roberts (born 1970) is an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS ’08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election. She served as a substitute host for Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Weekend Edition Sunday on National Public Radio.
Born to reporters Cokie and Steve Roberts, Roberts earned a B.A. in political science from Princeton University.
Roberts began with Shorr & Associates, a political media firm in Philadelphia. She was technology reporter for The World, a radio program produced by the BBC and Public Radio International, for four years.
She hosted Your Call, a local call-in program, on KALW in San Francisco and moved to Washington, DC to host The Intersection, a news talk show, on WETA from 2006-07. For NPR, she has reported on such diverse topics as the US immigration debate, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, transgenic goats, amateur astronomers, Bikram yoga, and Icelandic geysers.
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Rebecca Boggs Roberts is an American journalist. She was one of the hosts of POTUS ’08 on XM Radio, which offered live daily coverage of the 2008 presidential election.
She served as a substitute host for Morning Edition, Talk of the Nation, and Weekend Edition Sunday on National Public Radio. Rebecca Boggs Roberts was born in 1970, in Los Angeles, California, U.S. She is 49 years old as of the year
Rebecca Roberts Husband, Wedding
Rebecca Roberts took a long way home. The daughter of journalists Cokie and Steve Roberts had no plans to be in journalism or to be in Washington.
At Princeton, she studied politics, then produced political radio ads in Philadelphia. She soured on politics but fell in love with radio. “Still,” she thought, “there were already enough journalists in the family.”
In 1996, Roberts and her new husband, investment banker Dan Hartman, moved to San Francisco. His company had an office by the bay, and they both liked being across the continent from their East Coast roots.
She landed a producing job at the public-radio station, and her career and family were moving along nicely when WETA radio called from Washington.
Roberts, 36, is now the host of a daily talk show, The Intersection. She’s back home, living on the third floor of her parents’ Bethesda house with her husband and their three boys while the house they bought in DC’s Glover Park is renovated.
She says Washington isn’t the city she left after graduating from Walt Whitman High. “It’s hipper, with better food and better style,” she says. While her parents frequent Pines of Rome, her favorite restaurant is Mon Ami Gabi, a French-bistro-style eatery in Bethesda.
Roberts is getting to know Washington again through her listeners. “Cab drivers,” she says, “are often public-radio junkies.”
Another advantage of being back: grandparents. Grandpa Steve Roberts drives the five-year-old twins to school every day. “They even have their own secret theme song,” she says.
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Rebecca Roberts, Daniel Hartman
Rebecca Boggs Roberts, the daughter of the commentators Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts of Bethesda, Md., is to be married today in the garden of her parents’ house to Daniel Jay Hartman, a son of Felicity and Alvin Hartman of Germantown, Tenn. The Rev. James David Ford, a Lutheran pastor and the chaplain for the House of Representatives, is to officiate, and the Rev. Patrick Connor, a Roman Catholic priest, is to take part in the service.
The bride, 26, is an executive producer for three radio programs at the SNP Network in San Francisco. She graduated from Princeton University.
Her mother is an anchor of the ABC News program ”This Week” and an analyst for National Public Radio in Washington. The bride’s father is a commentator for CNN, a panelist on ”Washington Week in Review” on PBS, and is the Shapiro Professor of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University in Washington. The Robertses also write a syndicated column for United Media.
The bride’s grandfather the late Hale Boggs, Democrat of Louisiana, was a United States Representative for 28 years and was the majority leader in 1971-72. Her grandmother Lindy Boggs of New Orleans succeeded her husband in Congress and served from 1973 to 1990.
The bridegroom, 28, is a senior managing consultant in the San Francisco office of Public Financial Management, which advices on city and state capital projects. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His mother is the business manager at Christ Methodist Day School, and his father is an account manager at the National Starch and Chemical Corporation, both in Memphis.
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Cokie Roberts and Steven V. Roberts her father
Steven V. Roberts (born February 11, 1943) is an American journalist, writer, political commentator.
Roberts was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, and graduated from Bayonne High School. He attended Harvard University, where he served as editor of the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson.
After graduating with a B.A. in Government in 1964, Roberts was hired by The New York Times as a research assistant to James Reston, then the paper’s Washington, D.C. bureau chief. He was a senior writer at U.S. News & World Report for seven years where he is now a contributing editor.
As a Washington pundit, Roberts appears regularly on ABC Radio, Washington Week in Review, CNN, Hardball with Chris Matthews. He often fills in as substitute host of The Diane Rehm Show on NPR (National Public Radio). He also appears regularly on America Abroad. Roberts has taught journalism and political communication at The George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs since 1997.
Roberts and his wife, Cokie Roberts, write a nationally syndicated newspaper column and are contributing writers for USA Weekend, a Sunday magazine that appears in 500 newspapers nationwide. In February 2000, they jointly published From This Day Forward. They have two children, Lee and Rebecca, and six grandchildren.
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Roberts (née Boggs; born December 27, 1943), best known as Cokie Roberts, is an American journalist and author. She is a commentator on contract to National Public Radio as well as a regular roundtable analyst for the current This Week With George Stephanopoulos. Roberts also works as a commentator for ABC News, serving as an on-air analyst for the network.
Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated by United Media in newspapers around the United States. She serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations such as the Kaiser Family Foundation and was appointed by President George W. Bush to his Council on Service and Civic Participation.
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Rebecca Roberts Death | Obituaries
Rebecca Winn “Becky” Roberts (Holt)
Rebecca “Becky” Winn Holt Roberts, age 70, of Lawrenceville, Georgia passed away on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at her home surrounded by those who loved her after living with cancer for four years. Cancer never took Becky’s remarkable outlook on life, her drive to survive and her amazing ability to keep going forward.
She is survived by her husband of 51 years, David Roberts, Sr.; two sons, William David Roberts, Jr. of Statham, GA, Christopher Reed Holt Roberts of Suwanee, GA; two grandsons, Justin Roberts and his wife, Crystal, of Monroe, GA, Dalton Roberts of Bethlehem, GA; two granddaughters, Nicole Roberts Whisenant and her husband,
Will, of Winder, GA, Devan Roberts Klamon of Commerce, GA; great-granddaughter, Kimberly Whisenant, and Justin, Dalton and Nicole’s mother, Brenda Crawford Roberts of Bethlehem, GA; sister, Margaret Winn Holt Mathis and her husband, Charles, of Lawrenceville, GA; brother, Dr. William “Bill” Grady Holt,
III of Birmingham, AL; two nieces, Margaret Annette Mathis Bryant of Marietta, GA, Rebecca Elizabeth Mathis Drucker and her husband Michael of Jefferson, GA; great-nieces and nephews, Jake Bryant, Jr., Ava Bryant, Catherine Bryant, Savannah Bryant, Damian Drucker, and Madelyn Drucker; other relatives and a host of many friends.
Becky was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. William Grady “W.G.” Holt, Jr. and Margaret Winn Monfort Holt; maternal grandparents, Clarence Eugene Monfort, Jr., and Rebecca Roddey Winn Monfort; paternal grandparents, W. Grady Holt, Sr. and Floy Jordan Holt.
Becky was born on December 17, 1947, in Atlanta, Georgia and was the great, great, great, great granddaughter of Elisha Winn, considered the father of Gwinnett County, Georgia. She was a 1966 graduate of Central Gwinnett High School and winner of the 1966 Atlanta Journal Cup Most Outstanding Senior.
Becky was an Atlanta All-Star Majorette and attended the University of Georgia where she was a member of the Georgette Dance Squad with the University of Georgia Red Coat Marching Band. She was a member of the GoGirl Dance Team at Georgia with Joel Eves (1st Basketball Squad) and member of the 1st GoGirl Dance Team in the SEC.
Becky served as Office Manager for 25 years with Environmental Data Corporation. Becky was a charter member of the Lawrenceville Junior Woman’s Club and winner of the 1978 Club Woman of the Year. She served as Manager of the City of Lawrenceville Elections, served as a Poll Worker for Gwinnett County Elections, and was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Lawrenceville.
Becky served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Gwinnett County Bulldog Club and member of the Board for the Student Education Fund for the University of Georgia. She served the Gwinnett County Fair Association as Director of the Miss Gwinnett Scholarship Pageant for thirty years and in June 2016 received the Miss America 30 Year Award.
Becky will be remembered for her service to her community, outstanding dedication to young women in Gwinnett County, and most of all for her never-ending courage and upbeat attitude during her journey with cancer.
She will be deeply missed by her family and those who called her friend. The Service Honoring the Life of Becky Holt Roberts will be held on Monday, September 17, 2018, at 11:00 AM at Tom M. Wages Lawrenceville Chapel with Rev. Dr. Joeann H. Malone and Rev. Margaret Hamilton Adams officiating with David McCleskey, Ruth Braselton Morris and Charlene Williams-Canady Sharing Personal Memories.
Pallbearers, Honorary Pallbearers, Members of the 1966 Central Gwinnett High School Class, Miss Gwinnett County Scholarship Pageant Officers and Members (Past to Present), and Former Miss Gwinnett County Queens and Outstanding Teens will serve as Honorary Escort.
Interment will follow at Shadowlawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Sunday, September 16, 2018, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the funeral home.
Those desiring may make memorial gifts to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Elisha Winn Restoration Fund at the Gwinnett County Historical Society, or The Miss Gwinnett County Becky Roberts Scholarship Fund.
Condolences may be sent to or viewed at www.wagesfuneralhome.com. Tom M. Wages Funeral Service LLC, “A Family Company”, 120 Scenic Hwy., Lawrenceville, GA 770-963-2411.