Toobin was born in 1960 in New York City to a Jewish-American family, the son of Marlene Sanders, a former ABC and CBS News correspondent, and Jerome Toobin, a news broadcasting producer.
Meet Jerome Toobin
Jerome Toobin was born on the 6th of December, 1919, and died on the 22nd of January, 1984. He worked as a television producer in the United States.
Toobin was born in Philadelphia to a Jewish family and graduated from Temple University in 1943. During WWII, he participated in the United States Army Air Forces and reached the rank of Lieutenant.
He was married to Marlene Sanders for 25 years and has a son, Jeffrey Toobin, who is a lawyer, novelist, and former New Yorker columnist as well as a CNN legal expert.
He worked as a producer for Bill Moyers in the 1970s, notably as the first executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal on PBS and at CBS.
Since 1974, he has also served as the head of news and public affairs at New York’s Channel 13 (WNET).
At the age of 64, Toobin died of a heart attack, and his funeral was held at the Riverside Memorial Chapel.
Meet Marlene Sanders
Marlene Sanders was born on the 10th of January, 1931, and died on the 14th of July, 2015.
She worked for ABC News in the 1960s and 1970s as a news correspondent, anchor, producer, and executive before moving to CBS News in 1978.
She is credited with becoming the first woman to earn a number of firsts in the then-male-dominated field of television news.
Sanders became the first woman to host an evening news broadcast for a major network when she replaced the usual anchor, Ron Cochran, who had taken unwell, shortly after joining ABC News as a journalist in 1964.
She was also the first woman to report from the front lines of the Vietnam War.
She was elevated to vice president and director of documentaries at ABC in 1976, making her one of the first female executives in the area. She was also awarded three Emmys for documentaries she produced for CBS.
Sanders obtained a low-level position in television news in 1955 after struggling to find steady work in theater. He worked for Ted Yates, the producer for Mike Wallace on WNEW-TV.
She rose through the ranks of the show’s production team, eventually becoming an associate producer and, after Wallace’s departure, a co-producer.
This was a groundbreaking feat, as women in the newsroom were traditionally consigned to purely administrative roles.
Jerome Toobin, a television producer who died in 1984, was Sanders’s husband. Jeffrey Toobin, their son, is a lawyer, author, and CNN legal analyst who was born in 1960.
Mark (b. 1967), their second son, was born with Down syndrome and spent his childhood in a group home in Connecticut.
