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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Weller, Sheila.     Subjects     Sawyer, Diane, 1945-     Couric, Katie, 1957-     Amanpour, Christiane.     Women television journalists -- United States -- Biography.     Women television news anchors -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Weller, Sheila.       by title:      The news sorority : ...         MARC Display

The news sorority : Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour -- and the (ongoing, imperfect, complicated) triumph of women in TV news / Sheila Weller. by Weller, Sheila. New York : Penguin Press, 2014. Subjects Sawyer, Diane, 1945-   Couric, Katie, 1957-   Amanpour, Christiane.   Women television journalists -- United States -- Biography.   Women television news anchors -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781594204272 (hardcover) : 1594204276 (hardcover) Description:  481 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents:  Twenty-second teasers -- Up-fronts. The news you give begins with the news you've lived : Diane, Christiane, Katie-- 1969, 1997, 2000 -- Morning. Louisville idealist becomes Nixon loyalist : Diane, 1945 to 1978 ; The secret princess becomes the exile in Atlanta : Christiane, 1958 to 1983 ; Little sister cheerleader to Pentagon correspondent : Katie, 1957 to 1989 -- Prime time. Brainy, blond, glamorous : Diane, 1978 to 1998 ; America's sweetheart to premature widow : Katie, 1989 to 1998 ; From Atlanta to Bosnia : a crusader is born : Christiane, 1983 to 1999 -- Sweeps. The cool drink of water versus the girl next door : Diane and Katie, 1999 to 2005 ; Home from war, still in battle : Christiane, 1997 to 2007 ; First female anchor : Katie and Diane, 2006 to 2009 ; Two out of three and then three out of six : Diane, Katie, and Christiane, 2008 to 2011 -- Cancellation. "Any white male in the chair-- " : Katie, Christiane, and Diane, 2011 to 2014. Requests:  0 Summary:  For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism, until finally three -- Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour - broke through, definitively remaking America's nightly news. Drawing on exclusive interviews with their colleagues and intimates from childhood on, bestselling author Sheila Weller crafts a lively and eye-opening narrative, revealing the combination of ambition, skill, and character that enabled these three singular women to infiltrate the once impenetrable "boys club" and become cultural icons.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 070.19509 We Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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