Women in Television News Revisited

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JOURNALISM; MEDIA STUDIES; WOMEN'S STUDIES Women in television news have made great strides in the past twenty-five years. No longer limited to being the tokén pretty face on the nightly newscast, women have taken their places as working journalists in newsrooms, on the campaign trail, ín war zones, and in the highest echelons of network news management. Barbara Walters and Connie Chung have even occupied the coveted network anchor's chair, if only briefly. In this book, 70 of the foremost women in television news reflect on their professional successes, the personal and professional sacrifices that often bought those successes, and the barriers that still confront women in the news business. Weaving their interviews into a compelling text, Judith Marlane covers a wide rangé of issues, including looks versus ability and experience, sexual harassment, the resistance to women news anchors, the difficulties of balancing work and family life, women's and men's salaries, and the... Tovább

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JOURNALISM; MEDIA STUDIES; WOMEN'S STUDIES Women in television news have made great strides in the past twenty-five years. No longer limited to being the tokén pretty face on the nightly newscast, women have taken their places as working journalists in newsrooms, on the campaign trail, ín war zones, and in the highest echelons of network news management. Barbara Walters and Connie Chung have even occupied the coveted network anchor's chair, if only briefly. In this book, 70 of the foremost women in television news reflect on their professional successes, the personal and professional sacrifices that often bought those successes, and the barriers that still confront women in the news business. Weaving their interviews into a compelling text, Judith Marlane covers a wide rangé of issues, including looks versus ability and experience, sexual harassment, the resistance to women news anchors, the difficulties of balancing work and family life, women's and men's salaries, and the willingness of women to help other women in the business. This book builds from Marlane's 1976 work, Women in Television News. Interviews with many of the same women highlight the gains that women have made in broadcast journalism. Simultaneously, Marlane has expanded her rangé of informants to include fifteen of America's most famous male anchors and correspondents to gather their assessments of the role of women in broadcasting today. JUDITH MARLANE is Professor and Chair of the Radio-Television-Film Department at California State University, Northridge. She earned her Master's and Doctoral degrees from Columbia University in New York. An experienced television writer, producer, and broadcaster, she alsó serves as a média consultant. From the book: "Probably the hardest thing for all of us was that in order to pass muster, to play with the big kids, you were expected to go out and you were expected to be aggressive and to not take no for an answer, and to pursue a subject or a story until it died an unholy death. . . . Then you were expected to turn around and come inside that station and be none of those things to your employers. And right a way, I looked at this, and I thought one of two things is going to happen here. Either they're going to make me crazy, or I'm going to make them crazy, and if I've got a choice, I know which way this one's coming down." -Linda Ellerbee Write for our catalog of books on film and média studies. Vissza