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2014.
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For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women - Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour - broke into the newsroom's once impenetrable "boys' club." These extraordinary women were not simply pathbreakers, but wildly gifted journalists whose unique talents enabled them to climb to the top of the corporate ladder and transform the way Americans received their news....
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Pub. Date
2024.
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"Barbara Walters was a force from the time TV was exploding on the American scene in the 1960s to its waning dominance in a world of streaming services half a century later. She expanded the big TV interview and then dominated the genre. By the end of her career, she had interviewed more of the famous and infamous than any other journalist in history. At sixty-seven she pioneered a new form of TV talk called The View. The Rulebreaker is the eye-opening...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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When a box from her mother showed up on Katy Tur’s doorstep, months into the pandemic and just as she learned she was pregnant with her second child, she didn’t know what to expect. The box contained thousands of hours of video—the work of her pioneering helicopter journalist parents. They grew rich and famous for their aerial coverage of Madonna and Sean Penn’s secret wedding, the Reginald Denny beating in the 1992 Los Angeles riots, and...
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