Philip Gourevitch: a staff writer for the New Yorker, reported on the Rwanda genocide in his 1998 book We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. [45], One of the founders of the Society of Women Journalists, Mary Frances Billington, was its president from 1913 to 1920. Originally expected to write only of fashion and make up, Bellander started to expand the area to the subjects of education and professional life for women, and from there to consumer issues and food quality and other issues concerning the private home life. Howard Kurtz: was at the Washington Post from 1981 to 2010; he became a media reporter there, at CNN and now for the Daily Beast. Dooley; his columns remained popular until the First World War. George Watson: a prominent photojournalist who became the first full-time photographer for the Los Angeles Times in 1917. Hind Nawfal (18601920) was the first woman in the Arab world to publish a journal (Al Fatat) concerning only women's issues. This development in the women's sections gradually transformed them to sections for "family" and private life for both sexes, and blurred the line to the rest of the paper. In 1970, Pernilla Tunberger became the first woman to be awarded Stora Journalistpriset.[41]. Melissa Ludtke: a sports journalist whose lawsuit, while she was working for Sports Illustrated in 1977, helped secure female reporters equal access to locker rooms. To learn how to add open license text to Wikipedia articles, please see this how-to page. Nora Ephron: a columnist, humorist, screenwriter and director, who wrote clever and incisive social and cultural commentary for Esquire and other publications beginning in the 1960s. She recently served as Yahoo's Global News Anchor. This award-winning journalist was born on June 22, 1941, in Philidelphia. Ernest Hemingway: a novelist and journalist, who reported on Europe during war and peace for a variety of North American publications. Before the internet and the craziness that is social media, they worked hard to bring us the news, and thats why we have fond memories for the news anchors from the 80s. Women journalists also face increasing dangers such as sexual assault, "whether in the form of a targeted sexual violation, often in reprisal for their work; mob-related sexual violence aimed against journalists covering public events; or the sexual abuse of journalists in detention or captivity. "Jane Grey Swisshelm: A Staunch Foe of Slavery, A Noble Woman's Life's Work". New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. ASIN B00EKYXY0K. 2016. James Reston: respected and influential Washington bureau chief and columnist, from 1974 to 1987, for the New York Times, which he first joined in 1939. [41] In 1918, Maria Cederschild, first woman editor of a foreign news section, recalled that women reporters were not as controversial or discriminated in the 1880s as they would later become, "when the results of Strindberg's hatred of women made itself known. He spent a long 26 years at CBS covering the news. Art Buchwald: a Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist whose humor column, which began in the International Herald Tribune in 1949, was eventually syndicated to more than 550 newspapers. Chicago Tribune, June 27, 1980. . Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television journalist. So theres our list of the most prominent news figures of the 1980s. Murray Kempton: a journalist whose long, stately sentences and short tolerance for pretense made him one of New Yorks most revered columnists and reporters; he wrote for the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, and, beginning in 1981, for Newsday. Morley Safer: a CBS reporter who exposed atrocities committed by American soldiers in the village of Cam Ne in Vietnam and reported for 60 Minutes beginning in 1970. She garnered such admiration from her peers that Dick Enberg came to refer to Bernstein regularly as "B-squared. Mary McCarthy: a novelist and critic, McCarthys essays appeared in publications like the Partisan Review, the Nation, the New Republic, Harpers, and the New York Review of Books from the 1940s through the 1970s. Eugene Roberts: as editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, he led the paper to 17 Pulitzer Prizes from 1972 to 1990. Dallas Townsend: a broadcast journalist who wrote and anchored the CBS World News Roundup on radio from the 1950s into the 1980s and stayed at the network for 44 years. [92] Susannah Clapp, a critic from The Guardiana newspaper that has a female classical music criticstated in May 2014 that she had only then realized "what a rarity" a female classical music critic is in journalism.[93]. Phyllis George was the winner of the 1971 Miss America pageant who was invited by CBS to join the network as a sportscaster in 1974. William Shirer: a wartime correspondent and radio broadcaster who wrote the Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 19391941. Bill Moyers: an award-winning public-broadcasting journalist since 1971 and former White House press secretary under Lyndon Johnson, who also worked as the publisher of Newsday and senior analyst for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. Anchor since: 1965 to 1968 (beginning at age 26), then "World News Tonight" in 1978 (became sole anchor in 1983). During the 1880s and 1890s, about a dozen women journalists were employed in the French press. Ora Eddleman Reed: a journalist and editor, Reed edited Twin Territories: the Indian Magazine in the 1920s, and later started a Native-American radio talk show. The Los Angeles Times has called Guerrero "the hardest working sports reporter", and the Hispanic Business Journal named her one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News from 2011 to 2014. Bernard Shaw: a journalist and news anchor, Shaw worked in the Washington bureau at CBS News, as a Capitol Hill Senior Correspondent at ABC, and in 1980 moved to CNN to become the networks principal anchor. Despite controversy for her blunt questions in several interviews, Connie stayed on top, going from a CBS co-anchor to an ABC co-host of '20/20' to hosting her own show on CNN, 'Connie Chung Tonight.' Understanding her worth and maintaining her passion, Connie was and still is a journalism icon, 50 years later, for Asian American women. [24] An important pioneer was Loulou Lassen, employed at the Politiken in 1910, the first female career journalist and a pioneer female journalist within science, also arguably the first nationally well known woman in the profession. Goldberg, Robert, and Gerald Jay Goldberg. Roberts left ESPN to become the co-host of Good Morning America in 2005. OLD FACES IN THE NEWS / As TV changes, the networks' venerable anchors Tamron Hall, formerly of NBC's Today, NBC News and MSNBC Judd Hambrick Mike Hambrick John Hambrick, formerly WEWS-TV, KRON-TV, KABC-TV, WNBC, WTVJ and WCIX Leon Harris, WJLA-TV Jim Hartz (deceased), formerly NBC News Paul Harvey (deceased), News & Comment, ABC radio Erica Hill, formerly NBC News now CNN Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC Joe McGinniss: a non-fiction author whose first book The Selling of the President 1968, detailed the marketing strategies of the Nixon campaign. That's a little less than 1 woman for every 4 guys. Earl Brown: a journalist and politician who won acclaim for a series of articles on race that was published in Harpers and Life magazines between 1942 and 1944. Early in her career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and closely associated with the president himself. Christopher Hitchens: a prolific journalist with a large vocabulary and no fear of controversy, who wrote many widely discussed books and wrote columns for the Nation and Vanity Fair. This large gender gap is likely the result of the persistent under-representation of women covering important beats and reporting from conflict, war-zones or insurgencies or on topics such as politics and crime. Steve Coll: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who also served as managing editor at the Washington Post, Coll is now a foreign-policy reporter and blogger for the New Yorker. From John Bolaris to Larry Mendte and from Lisa Thomas-Laurie to Renee Chenault-Fattah, Philadelphia's media landscape has been shaped by . Morley Safer Morley Safer is seen in a December. [28] Caroline Rmy de Guebhard, pen-name Severine, was employed by the Cri du Peuple in 1880s and has been referred to as the first female reporter in France. Here, Lou. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe, and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip. Tom Wolfe: a popular journalist and novelist who helped invent new journalism in the 1960s and 1970s with his well reported and kinetically written articles and books, including The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Right Stuff. News Anchors Clay Felker: with Milton Glaser in 1968 launched New York magazine, which he had edited when it was a supplement to the Herald Tribune, and helped invent what became the most widely imitated style of magazine journalism in the late twentieth century and beyond. Anthony Lewis: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a columnist for the New York Times from 1969 to 2001. In the case of NYU's 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years, culled from more than 300 nominees plus write-ins in a vote by thefaculty at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at NYU and an Honorary Committee of alumni, that final ratio is 78 men to 22 women. Her reports of the negotiations leading to the Peace of Utrecht were read all over Europe, and admired for the distinction with which she reported on scandal and gossip.[26]. [34] The journal had its most successful period under her editorship, with more than 1800 copies sold in 1820.[35]. Michael Moore: influential, controversial and satiric documentary filmmaker, his films have included Roger and Me (1989) and Bowling for Columbine (2002). Eliza Davis Aria was a fashion writer and columnist known as 'Mrs Aria', she wrote for a variety of publications in the late 19th and early 20th century including Queen, The Gentlewoman, Hearth and Home, and the Daily Chronicle. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years from 1986 to 2011. Jim Romenesko: an editor at Milwaukee Magazine and early adapter of the Internet, Romenesko launched several newsletters and later the blog Mediagossip.com, which was acquired by the Poynter Institute and became the go-to source for up-to-the-minute media news. The only female critics from major US papers are Anne Midgette (The New York Times) and Wynne Delacoma (Chicago Sun-Times). David Brinkley: co-anchor of the top-rated Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC from 1956 to 1970, which he followed by a distinguished career as an anchor and commentator at NBC and ABC News. Henry Hampton: an award-winning filmmaker, Hampton made many films that dealt with social justice and inequality in America, including Eyes on the Prize about the civil-rights movement. Nick Ut: an Associated Press photographer who took the iconic photograph of a burning girl running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War. Bill OReilly: the host of the most watched cable-news program in the US the OReilly Factor which debuted in 1996. Carl Bernstein: while a young reporter at the Washington Post in the early 1970s broke the Watergate scandal along with Bob Woodward. I. R. Dalton, "SIMMS, SOPHIA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2017. During the Interwar period, a change occurred that exposed women reporters to an informal discrimination long referred to as a "woman's trap": the introduction of the customary women's section of the newspapers. Jimmy Cannon: a venerated, imitated New York sports writer (except for some stints reporting on war), for the New York Post then the Hearst newspapers, from the 1940s through the 1960s; perhaps his most memorable line was about the African-American boxer Joe Louis: He is a credit to his race the human race.. Eddie Adams: an Associated Press photographer who took one of the iconic photos of the Vietnam War: of a Saigon execution. Norman Mailer: a novelist, playwright and journalist who received the Pulitzer Prize twice and helped establish a novelistic form of journalism with the books, The Armies of the Night in 1968, and The Executioners Song in 1980. Charles Herrold: a radio reporter whose makeshift radio station, on the air from 1909 to 1917, eventually evolved into San Franciscos KCBS, by some measures Americas oldest radio station. [24], Women's involvement in journalism came early in France. Couric has been a television host on all Big Three television networks in the United States, and in her early career was an Assignment Editor for CNN. In 2017, with the #MeToo movement, a number of notable female journalists came forward to report sexual harassment in their workplaces. From her classic '80s bracelets to her modern-day on-air persona, Brooke Baldwin has always maintained an authentic and colorful style. Runners-up include: Lin Sue Cooney, Tram Mai, Sean McLaughlin, Phil Allen, Tara Hitchcock, Deborah Pyburn, Linda Williams, Ken Coy, John Hook, Catherine Anaya and Troy Hayden. W. C. Heinz: a sportswriter then a war correspondent then a sports columnist for the New York Sun from 1937 until the papers death in 1950; after that a magazine writer; perhaps best known for his concise, understated but emotional 1949 account of the death of a promising young racehorse. Bob Herbert: who wrote a column for the New York Times from 1993 to 2011 that dealt with poverty, racism, the Iraq War, and politics. Mal Goode: a news correspondent and radio host, hired by ABC in 1962 as Americas first African-American network television reporter. 1 / 25. Nicholas Kristof: a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist at the New York Times and Washington Post, with an intense focus on human rights, particularly overseas. Harold Ross: founded the New Yorker in 1925; edited it until his death in 1951. Andrew Sullivan: an early blogger and former editor of the New Republic, Sullivan is known for his blog the Daily Dish. And, of course, in between reporting the news, these personalities (anchors and reporters) always seem to make headlines on and off-air themselves. It was not until the 1880s, however, that women begun to be professionally active in the Danish press, and Sofie Horten (18481927) likely became the first woman who supported herself as a professional journalist when she was employed at Sor Amtstidende in 1888. Hart . George Polk: a journalist and radio broadcaster for CBS who insisted on finding his own information, Polk was killed while covering the Greek Civil War in 1948; his colleagues established an award in his name. Roberts later began work as an anchor for ESPN's SportsCenter in 1990, quickly gaining popularity and becoming known for her signature catchphrase, "Go on with your bad self.". She suffered the hardships of siege when she sheltered in the cellar of the Marshall House during the failed retreat of the British army. Katha Politt: an award-winning author and essayist, Pollitt has written about feminist issues for publications like the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and numerous others; she also writes a column for the Nation. (CBS Sports had eventually agreed to discontinue commentary immediately after the game.) 2016. Marlene Sanders: the first female television correspondent in Vietnam, the first female anchor on a US network television evening newscast and the first female vice president of ABC News. In 1978 she was hired as the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news anchor for WMAQ-TV. Robin Roberts began her career as a television sports journalist in 1983, working as a sports anchor for WDAM-TV in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Lee: a journalist and columnist who is the founding president of the Korean-American Journalists Association; in 1979 he founded Koreatown, the first national Korean-American newspaper. John Gregory Dunne: a journalist, essayist, literary critic, screenwriter and novelist, Dunne wrote nonfiction books and essays on Hollywood, crime and politics from the 1960s until his death in 2003. Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC News's nightly flagship program ABC World News, a co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program Good Morning America and Primetime newsmagazine. Michael Herr: who covered the Vietnam War with unprecedented rawness and cynicism for Esquire and wrote the book Dispatches, a partially fictionalized account of his experiences in Vietnam. Available at, Gardiner, Becky, Mahana Mansfield, Ian Anderson, Josh Holder, Daan Louter, and, Barton, Alana, and Hannah Storm. One of the few women on the national stage, her talent allowed her to climb the ranks eventually anchor NBC News At Sunrise in 1983. John Cameron Swayze: NBCs first television newscaster in 1949 on the 15-minute Camel News Caravan. [39], In 1822, Wanda Malecka (18001860) became the first woman newspaper publisher in Poland when she published the Bronisawa (followed in 182631 by the Wybr romansw); she had in 1818-20 previously been the editor of the handwritten publication Domownik, and was also a pioneer woman journalist, publishing articles in Wanda. Arthur Krock: New York Times columnist and Washington bureau chief from 1932 to 1953, Krock won four Pulitzer Prizes. Heywood Broun: an editor, drama critic, sports writer and columnist who helped found the American Newspaper Guild in 1933. Famous Female Newscasters | List of Top Female Newscasters - Ranker Rachel Maddow: has hosted her own popular, liberal, good-humored prime-time news program on MSNBC since 2008. David Halberstam: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, known for his coverage of Vietnam, the civil rights movement, politics, and sports. Mary Heaton Vorse: a journalist and activist whose essays on womens rights and civil rights appeared in New Republic, McClures Magazine, New York World in the first half of the twentieth century. Adolph Ochs: the New York Times, when he purchased it in 1896, had a circulation of about 9,000; by 1921 Ochs paper, increasingly known for its nonpartisan reporting, had a staff of 1,885 and a circulation of 780,000. The first woman in Denmark who published articles in Danish papers was the writer Charlotte Baden, who occasionally participated in the weekly MorgenPost from 1786 to 1793. A noted example of this development was Synnve Bellander, editor of the women's section "Hus och hem" at Svenska Dagbladet in 193259.
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