Linda Cavanaugh, often referred to as the Princess of the Plains, is a retired award-winning newscaster, best known for working with NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
13 Facts About Linda Cavanaugh
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Linda Cavanaugh began her career in 1978 as a general assignment reporter and news photographer at KFOR-TV, before becoming the station's first female evening news co-anchor in the early 1980s.
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George Washington University honored her for a special report in the late 1980s, in which Linda Cavanaugh was the first non-network journalist from the United States allowed in the Soviet Union under their new "glasnost".
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Linda Cavanaugh was awarded the Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting.
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In 1995, Linda Cavanaugh went to Vietnam and became the first American journalist allowed in the Hanoi Hilton, a POW camp where many American officers spent their final days.
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Linda Cavanaugh was accompanied by former POW Dan Glenn, a Navy pilot who spent six years there as a prisoner.
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Linda Cavanaugh was known for her investigative reports in the late 1990s on health conditions inside Oklahoma restaurants called "Behind Kitchen Doors", which resulted in changes in the law and moved lawmakers to open inspection records of the Oklahoma Department of Health and Human Services so consumers could be aware of health code violations in restaurants.
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Linda Cavanaugh made a cameo appearance as herself on NBC's series The Event in the episode titled "Your World to Take".
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On January 6,2010, Linda Cavanaugh underwent direct anterior hip replacement surgery after experiencing hip problems for more than a decade.
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Linda Cavanaugh returned to work at KFOR-TV more than a week after the surgery.
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On December 15,2017, Linda Cavanaugh retired from broadcasting after 40 years in the business.
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Linda Cavanaugh has earned more than 30 national awards for reporting and twice that many state and regional awards, in addition to 13 Emmys from the Heartland Chapter of National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
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In 1997, Linda Cavanaugh was awarded the Headliner's Award, The Society of Professional Journalists' Public Service Award and the George Washington Medal of Honor from the Freedom Foundation.