DEATHS : Radio, TV Pioneer Fuldheim Dies

Dorothy Fuldheim, a television broadcaster whose career spanned more than 35 years, died this morning in a hospital. She was 96.

Before her television broadcasting career at WEWS in Cleveland, which started in 1947, she was a radio broadcaster, interviewing every President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Ronald Reagan.

“The fact that she had broken into the business at age 54--she was a pioneer for women in journalism,” longtime WEWS cameraman Ted Ocepek said. “She loved her work. She never spoke about the good old days. She was up to date. She was with it. She was a today person,” Ocepek said.

Fuldheim became a lecturer and traveled extensively abroad. Collier’s magazine once listed her with Eleanor Roosevelt, Dorothy Thompson and Eve Curie as one of four women who achieved distinction as lecturers.