Word: anchored
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...president of ABC News, insists that "the main resources of the news division still go to World News Tonight and Nightline." But he laments, "There's a sense on the part of the people who work here that the magazine programs are the glamorous place to be." Notes NBC anchor Tom Brokaw: "It's getting harder and harder to find people coming into the business who want to cover daily news. They all want to be magazine reporters." Indeed they do: Brokaw himself will be a co-anchor (with Katie Couric) of NBC's new show...
Last year, WBZ news anchor Liz Walker delivered a keynote address at the conference. The program included panels and workshops on health, public speaking, negotiating and gender and the work force, according to executive director Elizabeth R. Caputo...
...most local newscasts are anchored by two people, almost always a man and a woman. One reason is that co-anchorship makes a show seem fast-paced. Then there is the quasi-feminist, yin-and-yang rationale: viewers evidently prefer a male-female balance at the anchor desk. (Indeed, after a decade of watching Chuck-and-Sues and Bree-and-Michaels on local news, the public was prepared to accept Hillary-and-Bill -- and to obsess on their haircuts.) "This makes more sense than the teams that have been tried," says Friedman, who produced NBC Nightly News until February...
According to sources at CBS, the Evening News anchor chair was all but offered to Ed Bradley recently, and he all but refused. That's an extraordinary benchmark of the decline in stature of the evening news shows. From the season before Cronkite left through the season after, the network- news-watching majority withered abruptly, 77% to 68% in just two years, and not because of CNN, which barely existed. Instead, it was simply the moment the nation, released by Cronkite's passing and Reagan's ignorance-is-bliss- ism, started abandoning the nightly-news ritual. Today...
...second woman to occupy a network anchor chair...