Ruth Ashton Taylor, trailblazing journalist who had 50-year career in radio and TV, dies at age 101

Ruth Ashton Taylor, trailblazing journalist who had 50-year career in radio and TV, dies at age 101

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Ruth Ashton Taylor, a trailblazing journalist who was the first female newscaster to work in television on the West Coast, has died. She was 101. Taylor died Thursday at an assisted living facility in San Rafael, California, according to her family. No cause of death was released. “She died very…

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