Journalist and legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio.
News commentator for Inside Washington (1992–2013)
Years active
1965–present
Spouses
Floyd K. Haskell (1979–1998; his death)
H. David Reines (m. 2000)
Relatives
Roman Totenberg (father)
Amy Totenberg (sister)
Jill Totenberg (sister)
Nina Totenberg (born January 14, 1944) is an American legal affairs correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR) focusing primarily on the activities and politics of the Supreme Court of the United States. Her reports air regularly on NPR's news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition. From 1992 to 2013, she was also a panelist on the syndicated TV political commentary show Inside Washington.
She's considered one of NPR's "Founding Mothers"[1][2] along with Susan Stamberg, Linda Wertheimer and the late Cokie Roberts. Newsweek magazine called her "the creme de la creme" of NPR,[3] and Vanity Fair refers to her as "Queen of the Leaks".[4] She has won many broadcast journalism awards for both her explanatory pieces and her scoops.
Among her scoops was her groundbreaking report of sexual harassment allegations made against Clarence Thomas by University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, leading the Senate Judiciary Committee to re-open Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Previously, in 1986, she broke the story that Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg had smoked marijuana, leading Ginsburg to withdraw his name. In 1977, she reported on secret Supreme Court deliberations relating to the Watergate scandal.
^"NPR's Founding Mothers: Susan, Linda, Nina And Cokie". May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
^"'Founding Mothers' of NPR Recount Trailblazing Early Days of Public Radio". April 16, 2021. Retrieved April 6, 2022.
^"Nina Totenberg". Washington Week. September 24, 2020. Archived from the original on November 24, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2021.
^Cite error: The named reference Vanity Fair was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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