Ina Jaffe, a NPR correspondent for about 40 years, the first editor of “Weekend Edition Saturday” and a contributor to “All Things Considered,”  died August 8 in Los Angeles. She was 75.

She covered national elections since 2008. In 2010, she received a Silver Gavel Award from the American Bar Association for her reporting on California’s disciplinary three-strikes law, which imposed harsher penalties for what were often minor or nonviolent criminal offenses. In 2011, her investigation into violence at psychiatric hospitals in California won an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award as well as a Gracie Award.

Ms. Jaffe’s through line of her reporting: “Make ‘em laugh, make ‘em cry, make ‘em come back for more.”