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Susan Linnee

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in Buenos Aires after answering an ad in a newspaper in 1973. She filled in for chief correspondent Tom Streithorst, giving live radio reports while he was undergoing treatment for an illness.
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chief in 1982. She was the first American woman to head a bureau for the AP in Europe. During her 14 years as Madrid Bureau chief, she led coverage of the
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to be near her family. She got involved with the East African immigrant community and continued to write, including book reviews for the
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Linnee retired in 2004 after eight years as Nairobi bureau chief. She continued to live in Nairobi, where she worked with the
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newspaper. Through her work at Daily Nation, she expanded her mentorship to many East African newsrooms, including Uganda's
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as their East Africa specialist. She also served as a consulting editor and mentor for young journalists at Kenya's
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before returning to the AP in 1980 as a correspondent from
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University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni
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Associated Press
Madrid
Nairobi
Sioux City, Iowa
St. Louis Park, Minnesota
St. Louis Park High School
American Field Service
University of Minnesota
Geneva
Berlin
New York City
Kigali
Buenos Aires
NBC News
AP
Jackson, Mississippi
Houston
New Orleans
International Herald Tribune
Paris
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
bureau
1992 Summer Olympics
Barcelona
Sarajevo
Balkans War
Somalia
Rwanda
genocide
1998 embassy bombings

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