Sandra Burton, 62; One of First Female Reporters for Time
Sandra Burton, 62, a veteran journalist for Time magazine and one of the first women to become a correspondent for the weekly, died Friday at her home in Bali. Her body was found by her companion, Robert Delfs, who said she apparently died after falling and hitting her head. The police said there were no signs of foul play.
Burton joined Time in 1964 as a secretary and rose through the magazine’s ranks, becoming a Los Angeles correspondent in 1970. She was named Boston bureau chief in 1973, and became Time’s correspondent in Paris in 1977.
Burton was named Hong Kong bureau chief in 1982, covering southeast Asia for the magazine.
She was well known in the Philippines for her reporting on the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos and the 1983 assassination of prominent opposition leader Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino.
She wrote “Impossible Dream: The Marcoses, the Aquinos, and the Unfinished Revolution.” Burton went on to work as Beijing bureau chief during the Tiananmen Square anti-government demonstrations in 1989. She left the staff of Time several years ago, but continued to work for the magazine on a freelance basis.
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