Jack Newfield: a pioneering, socially committed investigative journalist from the 1960s into the 1990s, mostly for the Village Voice. People didnt fight over things like fake news, and in general what you heard from your nightly news broadcast was basically the gold standard and accepted to be true (what a time to be alive). They are vulnerable to attacks not only from those attempting to silence their coverage, but also from sources, colleagues and others. [58] After the War, she stood up for Palestinian rights against much hostility. During this period, prominent female journalists like Diane Sawyer (ABC), Connie Chung (CBS), Jane Pauley (NBC), Judy Woodruff (CNN), and Barbara Walters (ABC) began making regular appearances on broadcast news programs across America and setting records for viewership along with them. New York, NY 10003 Robert Novak: a columnist, journalist, and author, in 1963 Novak co-founded with Rowland Evans Inside Report, the longest running syndicated political column in US history. Katherine Graham: a publisher who took over the Washington Post after her husbands suicide in 1963, she resisted White House pressure during the papers printing of the Pentagon Papers and the Watergate investigation; her memoir won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. Roger Angell: an essayist and journalist, known in particular for his lyrical, incisive New Yorker pieces about baseball. She is also the first woman to work as an analyst for regular coverage of college basketball, specifically for the Big East. In October of the same year, Campbell became the first woman to provide color commentary for Hockey Night in Canada, when she was called upon to substitute for Harry Neale, who was snowed in at his home in Buffalo, New York. Lowell Thomas: a radio broadcaster who rose to fame with his multimedia lectures on Lawrence of Arabia, Thomas later appeared regularly on NBC and CBS Radio, delivered the first regular television newscast in the US, and was for a time, in the middle of the twentieth century, perhaps the best-known journalist in America. The graphics were rather basic compared to what you see today. Svenska Litteratursllskapet. Nancy Dickerson: a radio and television newswoman and documentary producer who was CBSs first female correspondent in 1960 and then covered the White House for NBC News. Joe Galloway: a respected United Press International foreign correspondent who first went to Vietnam in 1965; his recollections of one of the first major US battles in that war, for which he later won a Bronze Star for helping to rescue a soldier, won a National Magazine Award in 1991. [28], In 1816, Therese Huber became an editor of the Morgenblatt fr gebildete Stnde, one of the main literary and cultural journals of the era. "Traditionally, women journalists have been doing it alone and they do need an infrastructure that helps guide them through their careers. Frances FitzGerald: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who went to Saigon in 1966 and in 1972, published one of the most influential critiques of the war, Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. . [13], Research undertaken by Pew Research Center indicated that 73 per cent of adult internet users in the United States had seen someone be harassed in some way online and 40 per cent had personally experienced it, with young women being particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment and stalking. Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.. George Watson: a prominent photojournalist who became the first full-time photographer for the Los Angeles Times in 1917. Burke was reported to be the first woman to be an analyst for NBA games, with her coverage of the New York Knicks. Randy Shilts: one of the first openly gay mainstream journalists; devoted himself to covering the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s for the San Francisco Chronicle; his book examining that epidemic, And the Band Played On, was published in 1987; Shilts died of AIDS at the age of 42 in 1994. Violence and Harassment Against Women in the News Media: A Global Picture. 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. The following year, George was promoted to the cast of The NFL Today, becoming one of the first women to have a prominent role in television sports coverage. 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. [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. Her career began in the 1880s and she helped establish the Southern Echo in 1888. Pedro J. Gonzalez: a radio host who created a Spanish-language morning radio show in 1929, which he continued from Tijuana after his deportation from the US. A former correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, she persuaded President Millard Fillmore to open the gallery in congress so that she could report on congressional news. It noted that 35 women journalists were in prisons around the world during the first six months of the year. Red Smith: a highly respected sports columnist who wrote for the Herald Tribune in New York before moving to the New York Times; in 1976 he became the first sportswriter to win the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Hannah Storm, a graduate of Notre Dame, first came to national prominence when, after working for CNN for a brief period, was hired by NBC to report on a variety of venues, including the Olympic Games, NBA and WNBA basketball, and the NFL. Nicholas Negroponte: a new-media oriented author, media critic and columnist, Negroponte helped to create Wired magazine in 1992 and co-founded the MIT Media Lab. Christiane Amanpour: long-time and distinguished international reporter for CNN; now also works for ABC News. Available at, Mijatovi, Dunja. Abraham Cahan: a Russian refugee who helped found the Jewish Daily Forward in 1897, which became Americas largest ethnic newspaper and which he edited for almost fifty years. Fatma Aliye Topuz wrote for 13 years, between 1895 and 1908, columns in the magazine Hanmlara Mahsus Gazete ("Ladies' Own Gazette"), and her sister Emine Semiye Onasya worked on the editorial staff. 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. While many female reporters in the 1800s and early 1900s were restricted to society reporting and were expected to cover the latest in food or fashion, there were a few women who reported on subjects that were considered the domain of male reporters. NYU's 100 Outstanding Journalists in the United States in the Last 100 Years,, men still dominate in numbers in the writing world. In 1981, Rather was promoted to CBS Evening News anchor, a post he maintained for 24 years, from the 1980s until the early 2000s. Morley Safer Morley Safer is seen in a December. Rupert Murdoch: first brought his style of tabloid, opinionated journalism to New York in 1976, with his purchase of the New York Post; but his largest contribution to American journalism probably was founding the Fox News Channel in 1996. It was the golden era for nightly news and tv journalism in general, and if you grew up in the 1980s, undoubtedly you knew who these iconic news anchors and personalities were. David Halberstam: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, known for his coverage of Vietnam, the civil rights movement, politics, and sports. 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. Janet Flanner (Genet): a journalist who wrote a series of Letters from Paris, chronicling the citys emergence from the Occupation for the New Yorker. [36], The first female journalist in Norway was Birgithe Khle, who published the local paper Provincial-Lecture in Bergen between 1794 and 1795. Ida B. This award-winning journalist was born on June 22, 1941, in Philidelphia. In 1978 she was hired as the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news anchor for WMAQ-TV. The Baroness Frederika Charlotte Riedesel's 18th century Letters and Journals Relating to the War of the American Revolution and the Capture of the German Troops at Saratoga[48] is regarded as the first account of war by a woman. Female authors such as Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and Adlade Dufrnoy contributed with articles to the press, and chief editors such as Madeleine Fauconnier of the Ncrologe of Paris (17641782) and Justine Giroud of the Affiches, annonces et avis-divers du Dauphin of Grenoble 17741792, enjoyed successful careers in both the capital and the provinces. Dooley; his columns remained popular until the First World War. Bonnie Bernstein has become one of the most recognizable and highly respected journalists in sports. What 10 famous news anchors looked like before and after they made it big Ellen Cranley Steve Fenn /ABC via Getty Images, Mike Coppola/Getty Images for WarnerMedia News anchors have the faces. [42] During the 18th century, many periodicals for, about, and likely also by women were published, but as women normally published under pseudonym, the can seldom be identified: one of the few identified ones being Catharina Ahlgren, who edited the typical women's periodical De nymodiga fruntimren (Modern Women) in 1773. Adam Davidson: a journalist who focuses on business and economics issues at NPR and who produced along with Alex Blumberg the much-downloaded explanation of the financial crises, The Giant Pool of Money.. Bill Mauldin: a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist who commented on World War II, the Cold War, and the Kennedy Assassination, among many other matters. Carl Hiassen: a journalist and novelist who has been writing his acclaimed column for the Miami Herald since 1985. John H. Sengstacke: publisher of the Chicago Defender from 1940, who established the National Newspaper Publishers Association, which strengthened African-American owned newspapers. In July 1981 she became the first African-American celebrity/actress to grace the cover of Playboy magazine. John Steinbeck: a novelist and journalist who exposed the hardships of Okie migrant camp life in the San Francisco News in 1936, covered World War II and wrote newspaper columns in the 1950s. Andy Rooney: a popular, straight-talking, somewhat cranky commentator on the everyday for 60 Minutes; his segment, A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, aired from 1978 to 2011. Joe Rosenthal: a photographer who took the iconic picture of Marines raising an American flag on the island of Iwo Jima during World War II. Gardner later moved on to NBC, serving in several capacities for six years, including as a co-host on NFL Live! Around 20% of all the cases that were documented had to do with online harassment. 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. As a result, over 100 affiliates were forced to broadcast six minutes of empty air. Willard M. Kiplinger: newspaper pioneer who started the weekly Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923. As journalism became a profession, women were restricted by custom from access to journalism occupations, and faced significant discrimination within the profession. Ed Bradley: a reporter who covered the Vietnam War, the 1976 presidential race, and the White House at CBS and who was a correspondent on 60 Minutes for 26 years. 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. Her husband, George Moreland Crawford, was the Paris correspondent of The Daily News. Robert C. Kochersberger (Editor), Ida M. Tarbell, Everette E. Dennis, Crawford, Anwen. Feminist writer Bessie Rayner Parkes Belloc began her career writing for local newspapers and was founder editor of the English Woman's Journal, which was published between 1858 and 1864,[45] she also wrote essays, poetry, fiction and travel literature. 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. There are thousand of females working as newscasters in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Judith Mwobobia, The editor of "Sunday", a pullout in the Sunday edition of The Standard, a national newspaper in Kenya. 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. Gabriel Heatter: a radio broadcaster for the Mutual Broadcasting System who covered, among other things, the trial of Bruno Hauptmann and World War II. Anthony Lewis: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a columnist for the New York Times from 1969 to 2001. 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. [41] The coverage of the women's section customarily became the task of the female reporters, and as they were a minority, the same reporters were often forced to handle the women's section aside from their other assignments, which placed them at a great disadvantage to their male colleagues when the competition became harsher during the interwar depression. More postings here: http://latvnewsreporters.blogspot.comA collection of the men and women news anchors and reporters in Los Angeles that kept us informed as. For information on reusing text from Wikipedia, please see the terms of use. Frfattarroll och retorik hos frihetstidens kvinnliga frfattare (Uppsala 2001), 165187, 339345. Maureen Dowd: a New York Times columnist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her pieces on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. The feminist press developed, and Madame de Beaumer, Catherine Michelle de Maisonneuve and Marie-Emilie Maryon de Montanclos all successively functioned as chief editors and directors of the women's magazine Journal des dames (175978). David Remnick: Remnick, a former Washington Post reporter, won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Lenins Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire and in 1998 became the editor of the New Yorker, for which he also writes and reporters. It is only since that change that women have been more active in the scene of journalism. Years before she hosted her own CNN program, Baldwin was a. Many of these crimes are not reported as a result of powerful cultural and professional stigmas. Of the 10 staff journalists who received the highest levels of abuse and dismissive trolling, eight were women. Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 - October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Group, 1990. Heggestad, Eva: Kritik och kn. He addressed it with the sports department, emphasizing that CBS Sports would cover the half-hour if the show did not start on time. 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 Chancellor: a newspaper and television reporter who worked at the Chicago Sun-Times, as the anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982, and as the director of the Voice of America. That's why we were formed and that's why we would like to get as much support in from everyone in the industry. In dramatic lore they are known as famine, pestilence, destruction and death. Since then, literallyhundreds of women have graced the network airwaves, with varied success. [52] Women increased their presence in professional journalism, and popular representations of the "intrepid girl reporter" became popular in 20th-century films and literature, such as in His Girl Friday (1940).[54][55]. Demos. Jim Lehrer: Lehrer was the co-host of the MacNeil/Lehrer Report beginning in 1975 on public television, the host of NewsHour and the moderator of eleven presidential-candidate debates. [24], Women's involvement in journalism came early in France. 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. 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. Jillian Barberie John Beard (news anchor) Ross Becker Rod Bernsen Angela Black (news anchor) Asha Blake Bill Bonds Lisa Breckenridge Tom Brokaw Marc Brown (journalist) C Cher Calvin Jim Castillo Stan Chambers Sophia Choi Connie Chung Nick Clooney Fritz Coleman Joel Connable Erin Coscarelli Ann Curry D Peter Daut Christine Devine John Seigenthaler: a journalist and politician, Seigenthaler was a reporter and editor at the Tennessean and was also the founding editorial director of USA Today. Reuven Frank: president of NBC News from 1968 to 1973, reporter, documentary maker, and broadcast television pioneer, Frank produced the Huntley-Brinkley Report, and won an Emmy Award for the documentary The Tunnel. Leslie Visser, an accomplished sportswriter for the Boston Globe, came into national prominence when she joined CBS in 1984 as a part-time reporter. List of famous female news presenters, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. Michael Kinsley: a political journalist and columnist, edited the New Republic, co-hosted CNNs Crossfire and was the founding editor of the online journal Slate. Dorothy Thompson: her reporting on Hitler and the rise of Nazism led to her being expelled from Germany in 1934; also a widely syndicated newspaper columnist, a rare female voice in radio news in the 1930s and the second most influential woman in America, after Eleanor Roosevelt, according to Time magazine in 1939. Dan Rather: a journalist who covered the Kennedy assassination and the Nixon White House for CBS and was the longest serving anchor of an American network newscast, the CBS Evening News, from 1981 to 2005. Ward Just: a correspondent from 1959 to 1969 for Newsweek and the Washington Post, where he covered, with considerable skill, Vietnam; left journalism to write fiction. She also anchored the Saturday night version of NBC Nightly News and also filled in time to time for Tom Brokaw. [45], Emily Crawford was an Irish foreign correspondent who lived in Paris and wrote a regular "Letter from Paris" for London's Morning Star in the 1860s. Goldberg, Robert, and Gerald Jay Goldberg. Bd 10, Tv revolutioner: 17501815 / av Kre Tnnesson; [versttning: Ingrid Emond ] Malm Bra Bcker 2001. Mike Wallace was a legend in the news business with a career really spanning before television was even around. Marcus Garvey: published and edited the influential African-American weekly the Negro World in 1918. Peter Jennings (ABC) On August 9, 1983, ABC announced that Jennings had signed a four-year contract with the network and would take over as the only anchor and senior editor of World News Tonight on September 5. Elisabeth Schyen. [41] In 1858, Louise Flodin came to be regarded as an important pioneer when she founded her own newspaper, became the first woman to be given a newspaper license, and composed a staff entirely of women employees,[41] and Eva Brag became an important pioneer during her career at Gteborgs Handels- och Sjfartstidning in 18651889. Edward R. Murrow: an influential television and radio journalist who covered the bombing of London, the liberation of Buchenwald, and helped expose Sen. Joseph McCarthy and, in the 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame, the plight of American farm workers. These lists are intended to begin, not end, a conversation on what makes for outstanding journalism. Ezra Klein: who began blogging while still in college, now writes a blog for the Washington Post and columns for the Post and Bloomberg; he specializes in public policy. The first thing a lot of people do whenever a new list of "most outstandings" comes down the pike is check to see what the male to female breakdown is.
