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
One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.
Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.
My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.
My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
Being a novelty had its advantages.
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent.
You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it.
News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.
Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.