The Shrivernator Returns: Award-Winning Journo Rejoins NBC News

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Both Today.com and MariaShriver.com announced today that the 57-year-old award-winning broadcast journalist, author of six books and former First Lady of California has rejoined NBC News as a special anchor on women's issues.

NBC News will exclusively broadcast the multiplatform Shriver Reports on the status of American women and their role in national issues. Shriver, the niece of the late President John F. Kennedy, was an NBC News anchor and correspondent from 1986 (the year she married beefy thespian Arnold Schwarzenegger) to 2004, when she assumed First Lady duties after her buff spouse became Governor of California. The couple separated in 2011.

Shriver won a Peabody Award for a Dateline story on single mothers on welfare, and first rose to prominence anchoring the Today Show.