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Catherine Patricia "Cassie" Mackin (August 28, 1939 – November 20, 1982) was a pioneer woman journalist in United States television network broadcasting.[1][2][3] In the early 1970s, she anchored a WRC-TV newscast and in 1972 became NBC's first female correspondent to serve as a floor reporter at the national political conventions.
Catherine (Cassie) Mackin, 43, a Washington correspondent for ABC News who was noted for her knowledge of politics and government, died of cancer Nov. 20 at the home of a relative in Towson, Md.
Nov 21, 1982 · Catherine Mackin, a television correspondent based in Washington for ABC News for the last five years, died yesterday morning in Baltimore after a long illness. She was 42 years old.
Mackin, Catherine (1939–1982) American journalist who was the first woman to serve as a network television floor reporter at the national political conventions. Name variations: Cassie Mackin.
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Nov 20, 1982 · WASHINGTON -- Catherine 'Cassie' Mackin, a veteran television network correspondent who specialized in political campaigns and conventions, died early Saturday of cancer, an ABC News spokesman...
Catherine Mackin was a national television news broadcaster, reporter and an excellent all-around journalist. She is survived by her parents and sister. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Gerard and Michael.
Mar 1, 2019 · Catherine Mackin reporting from outside the White House in 1973. She won wide acclaim in 1972 as the first woman TV floor reporter to cover both the Democratic and Republican national conventions...
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television (www.FuzzyMemories.TV), organizer. Show less. ABC News Brief from July 11, 1981 with anchor Catherine Mackin.
Catherine "Cassie" Mackin (1939-1982) was a television network correspondent noted for her national politics and government knowledge. After graduating from the University of Maryland, she worked for the Baltimore Sun from 1960-1963 and the Hearst newspapers' Washington bureau from 1963-1969.
Mackin served as a broadcast co-anchor and correspondent for NBC News, from 1969 to 1977, and for ABC News, from 1977 until her death. For NBC News, Mackin became the first female floor reporter at the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions in 1972.
