Joan Lunden
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Lunden in 1996
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Joan Elise Blunden September 19, 1950 Fair Oaks, California, U.S. |
| Alma mater | California State University, Sacramento |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Years active | 1975–present |
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| Children | 7 |
Joan Lunden (born Joan Elise Blunden on September 19, 1950) is an American journalist, an author, and a television host. Lunden was the co-host of ABC's Good Morning America from 1980 to 1997, and has authored eight books. She has appeared on the Biography program and Biography Channel.
As of 2014[update], Lunden is a special correspondent for NBC's Today.
Lunden was born in Fair Oaks, California, the daughter of Gladyce Lorraine (née Somervill) and Dr. Erle Murray Blunden, a physician.
She earned a Liberal Arts degree from California State University, Sacramento.
She attended California State University, Sacramento and later studied Spanish and anthropology at the former Mexico City campus of Universidad de Las Americas. She was a visiting instructor at Montclair State College in New Jersey, where she taught a course in broadcast journalism. Her first news anchor job was at KCRA-TV. She began her broadcasting career in Sacramento, California, where she worked for Channel 3 (KCRA) and Radio as co-anchor of the daily noon television news program. She produced the noon news broadcast and hosted KCRA's television specials.
In 1975, Lunden joined New York's WABC-TV Eyewitness News, at which time her name was changed to avoid being called "Blunder". A year later she became co-anchor on the weekend newscasts. Lunden joined GMA in the fall of 1976 as a feature news/consumer reporter, and later became fill-in co-host when former co-host Sandy Hill left to work on ABC's coverage of the Winter Olympics.
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