Marion Lewenstein, Stanford University journalism professor emeritus and CNPA’s University Journalism Educator of the Year in 1981, died March 6 of complications of heart and circulatory disease at home in Palo Alto, according to Stanford University News Service. She was 93.

Lewenstein was a journalist for Time magazine as well as Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Women’s Wear Daily, Money, London Sunday Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and The San Jose Mercury News.

“Marion Lewenstein was a pathbreaker,” said Jay Hamilton, chair of Stanford’s Department of Communication and director of the Stanford Journalism Program. “She was an early tech journalist in Silicon Valley, and an early researcher of how people read news online. She excelled in the classroom and was integral to the establishment of the Rowland and Pat Rebele Journalism Internship Program, which has allowed hundreds of Stanford students across more than three decades to pursue reporting internships.”