Wisconsin Library Association Annual ConferenceKeynote Speaker: Wednesday, October 25, 5:30 PM
"Often, In Libraries......" Among other things, Martha Teichner will explore her own experiences in and with libraries, with homage being paid to chocolate.
MARTHA TEICHNER
Correspondent, CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING
Martha Teichner has been a correspondent for CBS NEWS SUNDAY MORNING since December 1994, based in New York, but spent more than a dozen years as a foreign correspondent covering major international events.
Teichner's work has been recognized with seven Emmy Awards for reports including Princess Diana's death, the Detroit newspaper strike and an employees' lawsuit against the Maytag Company. In addition, Teichner interviewed First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton for SUNDAY MORNING in 1995 and 1997. She also accompanied the First Lady to South Asia, Central Europe, and to China and Mongolia. In addition, Teichner has also won two James Beard Foundation Awards for her food-related reporting.
Prior to joining SUNDAY MORNING, Teichner was twice assigned to the CBS News London Bureau (1980-84, 1989-94) where she not only covered Britain's royal wedding of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer, but covered many wars as one of only a handful of female battle correspondents. Teichner also covered the Maze Prison Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, the Lebanon War and the conflicts associated with the collapse of Yugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia). She reported on the fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and the Romanian Revolution. Also, Teichner spent several weeks in the Bolivian jungle covering undercover operations with the Drug Enforcement Agency.
During the Persian Gulf War, Teichner was one of a small group of journalists allowed by the military to accompany U.S. troops. She spent nearly six weeks with the 1st Armored Division in the Saudi desert, but also covered the conflict from Iraq, Kuwait, Jordan and Israel. For her war reporting, she received a Breakthrough Award, presented by Men, Women and the Media.
Between her two London assignments, Teichner was based in Johannesburg (1987-89) during the final, dangerous years of the struggle to end apartheid in South Africa. She returned to report on Nelson Mandela's release from prison and later on his election as President of a post-apartheid South Africa.
Between London assignments, Teichner spent three years in the Dallas bureau (1984-87), where she covered numerous stories in Latin America, among them the Mexico City earthquake. She began her CBS News career as a correspondent based in the Atlanta bureau (l977-80), where her assignments included the Cuban boatlift to the United States, the war in El Salvador and the exile of the Shah of Iran to Panama. While in Atlanta, Teichner covered a three-month strike by the coalminers in 1978, and numerous natural disasters. She was also the reporter for "Exodus: The Freedom Flotilla," a CBS Radio special about the exodus of Haitian and Cuban refugees to the U.S., for which she received a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
Teichner began her broadcast journalism career at WJEF-Radio and WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She then became a general assignment reporter for WTVJ-TV Miami and for WMAQ-TV Chicago.
Teichner has narrated seven "Biography" programs for A&E. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Daughters of the American Revolution--Walter Hines Page chapter of London, the Reform Club in London, the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Wellesley Club of New York. Since 1995, Teichner has served as moderator of "Conversations With ..." an interview series from the Spoleto Festival, U.S.A., the summer arts celebration in Charleston, South Carolina.
Teichner was born in Traverse City, Michigan. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1969, with a bachelor's degree in economics. She attended the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business Administration. She lives in New York City.
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