Education
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
She worked for newspapers including the New York Times and Washington Post, and hosted local television news programs in New York City. Berger worked as a foreign correspondent for Newsday on Long Island from 1965-1970. From there she moved on to the Washington Post where she became a bit player in the Watergate Scandal.
Berger reported that Richard Nixon White House staffer Ken Clawson had bragged to her about authoring the Canuck Letter, a forged letter to the editor of the Manchester Union Leader that played a large part in ending the campaign of Senator Edmund Muskie.
She also reported on the Cold War arms race and China. She would later contribute to the New York Times.
Berger holds a master"s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism. The couple had no children, but in 2009, right before Hewitt"s death, the couple became the legal guardians of a young boy from Ethiopia.