Word: compton
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...COMPTON, 30, the first woman assigned by a network to cover the White House, may be the most enthusiastic journalist in Washington. "There isn't a day goes by that I don't thank my lucky stars that I'm where I am," she says. Tall (5 ft. 9 in.) and, as she puts it, "big boned," Compton scurries through the White House, buttonholing Carter staffers, befriending Secret Service men and vacuuming the place clean of stories. A drama major at Virginia's Hollins College, she covered Virginia politics for the CBS Roanoke affiliate. ABC hired...
...their numerical gains, women still constitute only 13% of all on-camera network newsgatherers. Some who have made it fear that the tide for women is ebbing. "There's less of a tendency by the networks to hire women just because they are women," believes ABC's Compton. Marlene Sanders, ABC's vice president for documentaries, is more optimistic. "Women have only just been admitted to the system. Five years from now more of us will be ready for top jobs. It takes time." Too much time, some women fear. Says Public Broadcasting Commentator Lynn Sherr: "Think...
...reporters, pressing for news breaks, were themselves pressed. "I can't move, I can't breathe, I can't see, I can't talk. This is awful," muttered ABC's Ann Compton as she tried to swim upstream through a crowded aisle. Compton rose to the occasion, beating her colleagues to several good interviews, including one with Rockefeller just after the Vice President's scuffle. Trouble was, her producers chose not to use it, a common frustration for floor reporters. ABC's Sam Donaldson, unable to sell his control room an interview with...
...four horsepersons"-to keep an eye cocked for offbeat background stories. "I'd like to explain the process by which the Democratic candidate sewed up the nomination and the party before the convention," says Tom Pettit, one of NBC'S floor reporters.* Promises ABC'S Ann Compton: "The delegates used to be faceless people in straw hats, but this year we're going to find out why they are voting the way they...
...others: Tom Brokaw, John Hart and Catherine Mackin. CBS will have Morton Dean, Roger Mudd, Dan Rather and Bob Schieffer on the floor, and ABC will field a team of Ann Compton, Sam Donaldson, Herbert Kaplow and Frank Reynolds...