Robin Herman, 70, a gender barrier-breaking reporter for The New York Times who was the first female journalist to interview players in the locker room after an NHL game, has died. Her husband, Paul Horvitz, told the newspaper Herman died Tuesday at their home in the Boston suburb of Waltham, Massachusetts, from ovarian cancer. Herman was a hockey reporter covering the New York Islanders when she and another female reporter were allowed to interview players in the locker room – as their male counterparts were commonly permitted to do – following the 1975 All-Star Game in Montreal.