Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun\u2019s Historic Senate Campaign<\/em> about the first Black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\nMorris was inducted in the Silver Circle of the Chicago\/Midwest chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2002, and was named the first female recipient of a Ring Lardner Award in 2014. She was honored with 11 Emmy Awards for her work.<\/p>\n
Asked what advice she would give women interested in sportscasting, Morris said: \u201cYou\u2019ve got to do your homework. If you want to do a good job, you\u2019ve got to know your stuff. I think a woman who really loves sports, grew up with sports, and more and more played sports, which is really great, that they should give it their all and go for it. Because it\u2019s a combination of reporting and a lot of fun.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy advice would be to really learn the sports you\u2019re going to cover so that you have the respect of the players and the coaches, and know your stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
For many years the Morris family lived in an\u00a01840s farmhouse on a 15-acre spread in Palatine.<\/p>\n
Morris is survived by two daughters, Debbie and Holly, two sons, Dan and Tim, and seven grandchildren.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jeannie Morris, a celebrated journalist, bestselling author, globe-trotting adventurer, and award-winning producer and reporter, blazed a trail for women as Chicago\u2019s first female sports broadcaster. Morris, who turned 85 on December 2, died Monday at her Chicago condominium. For the past year she had been undergoing chemotherapy for appendiceal cancer, according to her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27797"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27867,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27797\/revisions\/27867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}