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New York Times hockey reporter Robin Herman was a trailblazer, breaking down gender barriers by becoming the first female journalist to interview players inside a mens professional sports locker room in the U.S.On Tuesday, her husband former Times editor Paul Horvitz told the newspaper that she passed away from ovarian cancer.She was 70.Herman began covering the New Yor
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stanley thermosflasche o making stops at The Washington Post. She also wrote a book and taught at Harvard.According to The Boston Globe, Herman will be laid to rest at a cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
