Florence Sando Manson, a broadcast pioneer for women, has died at the age of 95.
According to The Associated Press, Manson passed away from complications due to dementia. She died on Monday at her home in New York.
From 1941 to 1959, Manson had her own segment on Pittsburgh radio, and is best known for reporting on subjects other than gossip or fashion, which was a breakthrough at the time.
Her show was called Women's Angle and was a 15-minute show that broke out of the mold and talked about actual world news, notes The Hollywood Reporter.
"It was easy when the news was about Madame Chiang Kai-shek or the 10 best-dressed women or Eleanor Roosevelt or [Maine] Sen. Margaret Chase Smith or Oveta Culp Hobby [the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare]," Manson said for the book Broadcasting the Local News -- The Early Years of Pittsburgh's KDKA-TV by Lynn Boyd Hinds.
"But when the story was about some returning prisoners from Indochina or a Supreme Court ruling on desegregation, then I would have to introduce it with some ridiculous little line that seemed to indicate that it related to women, and then I would get into the story as it was."
Manson interviewed several public figures during her broadcast years, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Louis Armstrong and Danny Kaye.
She is survived by her husband Arthur Manson, two children and five grandchildren.