Lynn Sherr

Lynn Sherr (born March 4, 1942) is an American broadcast journalist and author, best known as a correspondent for the ABC news magazine 20/20.

Sherr was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore.

[1][2] She received a 1994 George Foster Peabody Award along with producer Alan B. Goldberg for the "Hunger Inside" a 20/20 documentary about extreme anorexia.

With Jurate Kazickas, Sherr published the Liberated Women's Appointment Calendar and Survival Handbook annually for ten years, beginning in 1971.

[3] Sherr has twice (in 1989 and 1992) been the recipient of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's (PPFA) Margaret Sanger Award (known as the "Maggie"), which is awarded to journalists for "exceptional coverage of reproductive rights and health care issues" in the view of PPFA.