Susan Linnee, who rose from a radio stringer in Latin America to become a groundbreaking Associated Press bureau chief in Spain and Kenya, has died at age 75. Linnee became one of the news organization's first female American bureau chiefs overseas when she was named AP's Madrid bureau chief in 1982. During her eight years as the news service's Nairobi bureau chief, Linnee oversaw a vast territory and managed a freelancer network stretching from Ethiopia and Somalia to Tanzania and Congo. Linnee spent 14 years as AP's bureau chief in Madrid, where she covered the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and served as a correspondent in Sarajevo during the Balkans War. She was named Nairobi bureau chief in 1996, and retired in 2004.

Source: ABC News November 06, 2017 15:16 UTC