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Tomoyo Nonaka SANYO'S NEW ANCHOR...
...back on TV, but this time on the other side of the interview. Tomoyo Nonaka, 51, Sanyo's new CEO, is better known as a charismatic news anchor and financial reporter. She is now charged with cutting the electronics giant's work force by 14,000 and selling 20% of its factories to reduce debt. Some called the appointment of a business neophyte--announced two weeks after Sanyo forecast its worst loss ever--a p.r. stunt. "Numbers will show," Nonaka responds. "But in the meantime, if people show interest in me and Sanyo for the publicity value, that's great...
...while around Sept. 11. "I was weak," he admitted. It didn't show. Jennings, who died four months later at age 67, was at his best after the attacks, reminding Americans of a fact he had devoted his life to: that world news matters. He had become an ABC anchor at just 26, but realizing he was too green for the job, gave it up to be a foreign correspondent, reporting from Vietnam, the Middle East and beyond. When he returned as anchor in 1978, he advocated for more world news coverage even though it was unpopular. It was said...
...years of age, just four months after his primetime announcement that he had cancer, was unique among the ragtag group of journalists in Beirut back then; just a few years earlier, he had ridden his good looks and smooth voice to the pinnacle of broadcasting ? nightly news anchor for ABC ? at the age of 26, only to be ridiculed out of the job for being too young and inexperienced. But rather than retreating to a well-paid anchor job in some local market, says Rather, Jennings exiled himself to the Middle East to learn the news craft from the ground...
...Judging by the outpouring of grief for Jennings, it's clear that he had long since won that respect. He worked his way from conflict to conflict, country to country, rising to Chief Foreign Correspondent at ABC before eventually retaking the job of fulltime anchor of World News Tonight in 1983. Along with Tom Brokaw and Dan Rather, Peter Jennings formed the steady triumvirate of anchors that would preside over the American evening news for the next two decades. The three rivals had an unusually warm relationship, and when Rather retired as anchor this March, it was Jennings who insisted...