Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first woman network correspondent to cover a national political convention for TV had a double assignment. She was supposed to interview Bess Truman and Frances Dewey and, while she was at it, apply their pancake makeup. Pauline Frederick rose from that humiliating start in 1948 to a distinguished career as NBC's United Nations correspondent. By the time she retired from NBC in 1974, only a handful of women had followed her into the influential, hotly coveted but obdurately masculine preserve of network reporting...
...reporter for ABC'S weekly Reasoner Report before becoming a newsreader on the network's Good Morning, America show a year and a half ago. She makes $50,000 a year, "and that's low compared to men who've had this job." Being a woman helps at first, Osmer believes, but in the long run it is harder to be taken seriously: "Some men say they like to get their news from a man. But that's because they're used to seeing men in certain roles-doctors, lawyers-and it takes time...
...took over last summer. It is a demanding regimen, but it does not bother Mackin: "People who do what we do are fairly driven people. I'm a compulsive worker." Mackin worked her way from,her home-town Baltimore News American to become in 1972 the first woman network television floor reporter at a national political convention. Though some viewers find her taut and aloof on-camera, off-camera acquaintances insist she is quite the opposite. "I have a small circle of friends," she says, "who don't mind if I come late to dinner...
...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...
...woman co-opted by promises...