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
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.
Women didn't want to watch other women on television because they were jealous of their husbands' diverted attention.
The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
In every interview I have ever read or seen or taken part in, the final question in our future-oriented society is always, What next?
I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.
To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.
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.