Rebecca May Lipkin, 48, a producer and writer for ABC News, died July 19, 2009, at Royal Marsden Hospital in London.
Ms. Lipkin was based in Washington from 1992 to 2001 as a staff producer of ABC World News Tonight With Peter Jennings. She worked with many well-known ABC newscasters, including Jennings, Charlie Gibson, Bob Woodruff and Carole Simpson.
In 2001, Ms. Lipkin moved to London as a producer for ABCs Nightline. She coordinated coverage of Europe, the Middle East and Africa, including conflicts in Iraq and Pakistan, for the nightly program, then hosted by Ted Koppel. She participated in the programs coverage of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which won many journalism honors, including Emmy, Peabody and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University awards.
On March 16, 2005, Ms. Lipkin was given credit on the air by guest host George Stephanopoulos for her program on Ireland with Frank McCourt, the author of Angelas Ashes, a memoir of his Irish childhood.
In 2005, Ms. Lipkin joined al-Jazeera in London as director of programs and helped establish the networks English-language programming in London. She was credited with bringing former ABC newsman Dave Marash to al-Jazeera as a news anchor in 2006.
Ms. Lipkin was born to Gladys and the late Dr. Nathan Lipkin of New York City on Sept. 7, 1960. She graduated from Brown University in 1981 and received a masters in journalism from New York University in 1986.
Ms. Lipkin spent a year at the University of Chicago in 1990-91 on a fellowship to study law, physics and Middle Eastern history. In 1999, after receiving a Knight International Press Fellowship, she spent six months teaching journalists in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary.
She is survived by her mother Gladys Lipkin of Hollywood, Fla.; a sister, Harriet Lipkin of Washington; and a brother, Dr. Alan Lipkin of Englewood, Colo.
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