Joan Shorenstein [SEP] educated at
after just a year, becoming the associate producer of "Face the Nation", and in 1979 she was appointed to producer.
Family.
In 1975, she married Michael Barone, a senior writer for "US News and World Report". They had one daughter, Sarah.
In 1985 Joan Shorenstein died of breast cancer and the following year, her parents donated $5 million to Harvard University to establish what is now known as the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy. It is currently
Joan Shorenstein
Joan Shorenstein (1947 – March 10, 1985) was an American journalist for "The Washington Post" and producer for CBS News.
She died of cancer in 1985 at the age of 38.
Early life.
Shorenstein was born in San Francisco as one of three children of real estate developer Walter Shorenstein and Phyllis Finley. Her father was born Jewish and her mother converted to Judaism. She had two siblings: Broadway producer Carole Shorenstein Hays and real estate investor Douglas W. Shorenstein, the chairman