The first woman city editor of a major daily newspaper, Agness "Aggie" Underwood got her start in journalism in 1931, when she became a reporter at the Los Angeles Record. She reported for that paper for four years. From 1935 to 1947 she was a police beat reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Express, which in 1962 became the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In 1947 Underwood was named the paper's city editor. Appointed assistant managing editor in 1964, Underwood retired in 1968. She died on July 3, 1984, of a heart attack.
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