About Betty Ann

Betty Ann Bowser, the new Health Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, graduated Ohio Wesleyan in 1966. By 1974, she was working for CBS, where she remained for the next 14 years. For the CBS Nightly News, she covered countless international stories, including famine in Africa and troubles in the Middle East. She also was the co-anchor of 30 Minutes, a news magazine program that won four Emmy's as well as DuPont and Peabody awards.

In 1986, she came to the NewsHour as a general assignment correspondent, reporting on every major domestic news story, including the Oklahoma City bombing, 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. She also has done extensive and award-winning science/health reporting, with stories such as concussions, dogs and cancer, conflicting reports about bisphenyl A, the development of teen brains and the presence of formaldehyde in FEMA trailers.

She lives in Boulder, Colorado and has two sons.

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Betty Ann’s Recent Stories

Health Dec 10

Details Emerge on Senate Health Reform Compromise

Some Senate Democrats sounded confident about prospects for health care reform Thursday, in the wake of Democratic negotiators' recent compromise deal on the public option -- though details of the agreement were still hard to come by. The agreement puts…

Nation Dec 07

Betty Ann Bowser: Public Option Debate Continues in Senate

It's all we've heard about for months: the public option, a government-run health insurance plan. Liberals love the idea. They say it would offer cheap insurance for the uninsured because there would be low administrative costs. And, they reason,…

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