Education
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, in 1880, she was educated in the United States at the College of Saint Mary of the Springs in Columbus, Ohio.
Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom, in 1880, she was educated in the United States at the College of Saint Mary of the Springs in Columbus, Ohio.
After graduating she became an associate editor for the Catholic Universe Bulletin. Her 1911 marriage to Dayton businessman Francis J. "Frank" McCormick, Junior. (1872-1954), an importer and executive of the Dayton Plumbing Supply Company, led to frequent travels abroad, and her career as a journalist became more specialized.
In 1921, she approached The New York Times about the prospect of becoming a freelance contributor from Europe, to cover stories not already investigated by the Times" foreign reporters.
The Times accepted, and McCormick provided the first in-depth reports of the rise of Benito Mussolini and the Fascist movement in Italy. Prior to the outbreak of World World War II, McCormick obtained interviews with Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, German leader Adolf Hitler, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt, Popes Pius XI and XII, and other world leaders.
In 1936, she became the first woman to ever be appointed to the previously eight-man editorial board of the Times. In 1939, with world war imminent, McCormick spent five months in 13 different nations, speaking with both political leaders and ordinary citizens in reporting the growing crisis.
She was reported to have spent, every year, time with Franklin Delano Roosevelt discussing policy.
Mistress McCormick died in New York on May 29, 1954 and is buried at Gate of Heaven cemetery in Hawthorne, New New York
After the war, during which she continued her reporting, McCormick was selected to represent the United States. as a member of the first delegation to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization conference at the United Nations.