Betty Rollin is a contributing correspondent for NBC News, and an accomplished author. Rollin's special reports for Nightly News included a series on the Indians of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, which won both the duPont and Emmy awards.

Rollin first joined NBC in 1971 as a reporter for the newsmagazine program Chronolog, and during 1972 she was the on-air theater critic for WNBC-TV, New York. She later created and anchored a series of the NBC News' special programs for and about women titled Women Like Us. In January of 1973 she was named a correspondent for NBC News. In this position, she reported on human-interest stories, which remain her main focus as a journalist.

In 1982 she became a contributing correspondent for ABC News' Nightline. She left that position in 1984 to write Last Wish, which deals with the suicide of her terminally ill mother. One critic called it "a document of personal compassion and public importance." The book has been published in18 foreign countries and was made into a TV movie, which aired on ABC on January 12, 1992, starring Patty Duke and Maureen Stapleton.

Rollin is the author of five other books, including First You Cry, a moving story - the first of its kind - about her breast cancer and mastectomy. Published in 1976, it received wide critical acclaim and was later made into a television movie starring Mary Tyler Moore as Ms. Rollins. This year, Rollins is celebrating her 25th year of survival!

Prior to her television career, Rollin was an associate feature editor and staff writer for Vogue magazine. Following that, she became a senior editor for Look magazine, where she remained until the publication was discontinued in 1971. She has contributed articles to many national magazines, including The New York Times where she was also a Hers columnist.