Jessica Savitch
Jessica Savitch
Jessica Beth Savitchwas an American television news presenter and correspondent, best known for being the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily presenter of NBC News updates during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to anchor an evening network news broadcast alone, following in the footsteps of Marlene Sanders of ABC News and Catherine Mackin of NBC News. She also hosted PBS's public affairs documentary program Frontline from its January 1983 debut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNews Anchor
Date of Birth1 February 1947
CityKennett Square, PA
CountryUnited States of America
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.
The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
What is the value of sticking a microphone in a man's face right after he has learned of his wife's death?