Even if you were only half-listening to the radio, you always knew when NPR correspondent Ina Jaffe was on the air. Ina's rich alto voice made you listen — whether she was reporting on politics, a high profile criminal trial, or, toward the end of her career, describing the advances in aging for a beat she created because she saw the need for it.
She had been open about living with cancer the past few years. She died Thursday (Aug. 1), with her husband Lenny Kleinfeld at her side. She was 75.
Ina had written about her experience with the disease with the same matter-of-fact approach she applied to her news stories. That’s how Ina was. Most of her colleagues will tell you Ina was a reporter’s reporter.
