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
Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?
Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.