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
Jessica Savitch quotes about
How valuable NBC Magazine was in my career is questionable.
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.
Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.
The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying.
The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.
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.
I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.
Television is intensely personal.
Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.
I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.
It had not occurred to me that marriage requires the same effort as a career. And unlike a career, marriage requires a joint effort.
Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.
In real life, events seem much less dramatic.
Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.