CBS mourns longtime journalist Maria Mercader, who died at 54 from coronavirus

CBS News is mourning the loss of longtime journalist Maria Mercader, who died Sunday after a battle with coronavirus.

In a news release shared Sunday afternoon, CBS remembered Mercader as a"network veteran who covered breaking news for nearly three decades and, most recently, helped shape strategy for the network's correspondents and reporters."

She began working with the network's news division as part of the page program in 1987, the year she graduated from College of New Rochelle, and went on to produce major stories for CBS News' foreign and national desks.

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