And someone might certainly argue that we could have subtracted someone here or added someone there. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. He was irritated because the U.S. During the newscasts time slot, an open tennis match was shown. Tina Brown: a writer, journalist and editor, known for livening up staid publications, Brown edited Vanity Fair and then the New Yorker, from 1992 to 1998, before co-founding the Daily Beast; she is currently editor-in-chief of the Daily Beast and Newsweek. Homer Bigart: who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his reporting for the Herald Tribune and then the New York Times, which he joined in 1955; he covered many of the major events of his time, from war to civil rights. Paul White: a journalist and radio broadcaster, White became the first news director at CBS in 1930. Joseph A. Barry: contributed his smart, vivid reports out of Paris from the 1950s through the 1980s, in books and for the New York Post, Newsweek and many other publications. [24] The first woman in Finland to work as a journalist in Finland under her own name was Adelade Ehrnrooth, who wrote in Helsingfors Dagblad and Hufvudstadsbladet for 35 years from 1869 onward. [56] Thompson is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. Roberts later began work as an anchor for ESPN's SportsCenter in 1990, quickly gaining popularity and becoming known for her signature catchphrase, "Go on with your bad self.". She garnered such admiration from her peers that Dick Enberg came to refer to Bernstein regularly as "B-squared. Ike Pappas: a CBS news correspondent who observed and reported on Lee Harvey Oswalds assassination, as well as the Vietnam War and presidential campaigns. Damon Runyon: a journalist and fiction writer renowned for his hard-bitten, seen-it-all, guys-and-dolls, 42nd-Street and sports reporting for Hearst newspapers in the first half of the twentieth century. She worked in Colorado for the Trinidad Chronicle-News, and her areas of expertise were baseball, football, and horse racing. [28], In 1816, Therese Huber became an editor of the Morgenblatt fr gebildete Stnde, one of the main literary and cultural journals of the era. Aida Alami (Morocco), freelance journalist reporting from North Africa, France, the Caribbean, and Senegal; regular contributor to, Nada Bakri (Lebanon), former reporter for, Shamael Elnoor (Sudan), human rights activist and freelance journalist working with independent newspapers, Courage in Journalism Awards, from the International Women's Media Foundation, UK Woman Political Journalist of the Year Award which aims 'to highlight the achievements of outstanding women role models. This is not to knock the outstanding male journalists on the listthey are, indeed, pretty outstanding, ranging alphabetically from James Agee to Bob Woodward. John Reed: a journalist and political activist, he is best known for his 1919 book Ten Days That Shook the World, which was a first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution. [9], The September 2017 report of the United Nations Secretary-General outlines a way forward for a gender-sensitive approach to strengthening the safety of women journalists. Studs Terkel: hosted a radio interview program on WFMT in Chicago from 1952 to 1997 and wrote oral histories that often emphasized work and working people. Of these comments, approximately 1.4 million (approximately two per cent) were blocked for abusive or disruptive behavior. Neil Sheehan: covered Vietnam for UPI, obtained the Pentagon Papers in 1971 for the New York Times from Daniel Ellsberg and won the Pulitzer Prize for his book examining the failure of US policy in Vietnam: A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. Bd 10, Tv revolutioner: 17501815 / av Kre Tnnesson; [versttning: Ingrid Emond ] Malm Bra Bcker 2001. Ann hrberg, Vittra fruntimmer. Street. Her writing analyzes the relevant events, personalities of key actors and consequences of the military struggles she observed. Arthur Krock: New York Times columnist and Washington bureau chief from 1932 to 1953, Krock won four Pulitzer Prizes. Nora Ephron: a columnist, humorist, screenwriter and director, who wrote clever and incisive social and cultural commentary for Esquire and other publications beginning in the 1960s. [57] She is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism". Leslie Visser, an accomplished sportswriter for the Boston Globe, came into national prominence when she joined CBS in 1984 as a part-time reporter. Cokie Roberts: thoughtful Capitol Hill correspondent for NPR and ABC News. 8, University of Toronto/Universit Laval, 2003. Dorothy Thompson: her reporting on Hitler and the rise of Nazism led to her being expelled from Germany in 1934; also a widely syndicated newspaper columnist, a rare female voice in radio news in the 1930s and the second most influential woman in America, after Eleanor Roosevelt, according to Time magazine in 1939. [29] Therese Huber was the first woman supporting her family with a salaried editorial position at a journal[30] and has been described as the first woman to hold an editorial position[31][32] and even as the first journalist in Germany. Mary Marvin Breckinridge: a photojournalist and filmmaker, during World War II, she was hired as the first female news broadcaster for CBS. [27] During the French revolution, women editors such as Marguerite Pags-Marinier, Barbe-Therese Marchand, Louise-Flicit de Kralio and Anne Flicit Colombe participated in the political debate. References for this section can be found on the article pages if not cited below. Matt Drudge: editor and creator of one of the first successful Web news sites, the Drudge Report, which broke the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal in 1998. The competition between the three nightly newscasts had reached a fever pitch by 1989. The Most Influential News Anchors of All Time - Ranker Lillian Ross: a staff writer at the New Yorker since 1945; known for detailed, understated profiles and features, and for the book Picture. The final list of 100 was announced at a reception in honor of the 100th anniversary of journalism education at NYU on April 3, 2012. In 1978 she was hired as the 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. news anchor for WMAQ-TV. David Broder: influential Pulitzer Prize-winning political reporter and columnist, who joined the Washington Post in 1968. Photos: CNN, HLN's memorable anchors and faces through the years 2016. John Chr. [30] She was not only author and editor for the journal, but also contributed many of her own translations. What 10 famous news anchors looked like before and after they made it big Ellen Cranley Steve Fenn /ABC via Getty Images, Mike Coppola/Getty Images for WarnerMedia News anchors have the faces. In 1999, Guerrero was hired by the Fox Network, where she hosted and participated in a variety of shows. James Baldwin: an essayist, journalist and novelist whose finely written essays, including Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time, made a significant contribution to the civil-rights movement. He is the anchor of the 6 p.m. news. Before joining the FOX team, Sandy co-anchored the 9 p.m. news at KPLR-TV for 4 years. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to . News Anchors And, of course, in between reporting the news, these personalities (anchors and reporters) always seem to make headlines on and off-air themselves. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983. One of the few women on the national stage, her talent allowed her to climb the ranks eventually anchor NBC News At Sunrise in 1983. Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute Lawrence Spivak: publisher of the magazine the American Mercury, Spivak co-created, in 1945, produced, and hosted, until 1975, the NBC News interview program Meet the Press. Dave Garroway: an easygoing radio and television host who helped popularize the morning-television show genre as the founding host of NBCs Today show, from 1952 to 1961. Mort Rosenblum: A widely respected Associate Press foreign correspondent from 1967 to 2004, interrupted by a few years as an editor at the International Herald Tribune. She was one of the first female journalists of her era to report by going undercover. Donna Abu-Nasr (Lebanon), senior reporter at Bloomberg, currently Saudi bureau chief, responsible also for Bahrain & Yemen. CNN talent: 80s and today | CNN Andy Rooney: a popular, straight-talking, somewhat cranky commentator on the everyday for 60 Minutes; his segment, A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney, aired from 1978 to 2011. She wrote on a range of topics, the agreement being that she visited the newspaper offices three mornings a week to write an article "on some social subject". Storm also went on to become the first play-by-play announcer for the WNBA in 1997. Anna Quindlen: a novelist, journalist and columnist, her path-breaking New York Times column Public and Private, won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1992. Bra bckers vrldshistoria / [chefredaktr: Kenneth strm; redaktion: Gil Dahlstrm ]. Finley Peter Dunne: an influential journalist, humorist and writer who created the satirical character Mr. Marcus Garvey: published and edited the influential African-American weekly the Negro World in 1918. Rush Limbaugh: began his national, top-rated, hugely influential, conservative radio talk show in 1988. Kathleen Sullivan anchors a 1981 broadcast. [41] At this point, the focus of a conventional education for a woman was language, which was not the case with a conventional male education, especially since the male reporters were generally not from the upper classes. Willard Mullin: sports cartoonist for the New York World-Telegram and Sun from 1934 until the papers death in 1966; created the Brooklyn Bum to represent the Dodgers. Walter Kerr: a writer and theater critic, Kerr covered Broadway for New York Herald Tribune and the New York Times, winning the 1978 Pulitzer Prize for criticism. Tim Russert: Washington bureau chief and political commentator for NBC News; host of Meet the Press from 1991 to 2008; respected for tough questions and clear explanations. The following year, George was promoted to the cast of The NFL Today, becoming one of the first women to have a prominent role in television sports coverage. Since then, literallyhundreds of women have graced the network airwaves, with varied success. John Hockenberry: an award-winning journalist and author who served as the first host of NPRs Talk of the Nation, later joined NBC and MSNBC, and now hosts the Takeaway on public radio; Hockenberry is also a prominent figure in the disability-rights movement. Michele Norris: a radio journalist who has co-hosted NPRs All Things Considered since 2002. During the 19th century, it was not uncommon for women to participate in the French press, but the majority of them were not professional journalists but writers such as George Sand, who only contributed on a temporary basis. Geraldo Rivera: his investigation for WABC-TV in 1972 of the abuse of mentally ill patients at the Willowbrook State School eventually led to the institution being shut down; went on to a career as an investigative reporter and talk-show host on network, syndicated and cable television. 212-998-7980. Most influential women in TV news, then and now, ranked: Katie Couric List of famous female newscasters, listed by their level of prominence with photos when available. The Los Angeles Times has called Guerrero "the hardest working sports reporter", and the Hispanic Business Journal named her one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in America. Bill Moyers: an award-winning public-broadcasting journalist since 1971 and former White House press secretary under Lyndon Johnson, who also worked as the publisher of Newsday and senior analyst for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather. After the British Journalism Awards 2019, the fewer bylines by women visible in the award caused a stir leading to a protest and a relaunch of Words By Women Awards. John Chancellor: a newspaper and television reporter who worked at the Chicago Sun-Times, as the anchor of the NBC Nightly News from 1970 to 1982, and as the director of the Voice of America. Hentet 16. [13], Research undertaken by Pew Research Center indicated that 73 per cent of adult internet users in the United States had seen someone be harassed in some way online and 40 per cent had personally experienced it, with young women being particularly vulnerable to sexual harassment and stalking. Pop Music and the Press. Nor was the struggle of life and competition so sharp, as it has later become. I. F. Stone: an investigative journalist who published his own newsletter, I. F. Stones Weekly, from 1953 to 1967. Lee: a journalist and columnist who is the founding president of the Korean-American Journalists Association; in 1979 he founded Koreatown, the first national Korean-American newspaper. Kbenhavns Universitet. Susan Sontag: an essayist, novelist and preeminent intellectual, among her many influential writings was Notes on Camp, published in 1964; a human-rights activist, she wrote about the plight of Bosnia for the Nation in 1995 and even moved to Sarajevo to call further attention to that plight. Starting the conversation, then: Who got left outand how do we ensure this gender breakdown moves toward a more evenly distributed future? Richard Ben Cramer: a journalist and writer whose exhaustive book on the 1988 presidential campaign, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, was published in 1993. Her daughter, Marie Belloc Lowndes, was a novelist as well as a contributor to The Pall Mall Gazette between 1889 and 1895. When network sportstelevision began airing back in the mid-to-late 1940's, it was a medium totally dominated by men. Bob Herbert: who wrote a column for the New York Times from 1993 to 2011 that dealt with poverty, racism, the Iraq War, and politics. Berger, Margareta, ntligen ord frn qwinnohopen! [19], The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) organized an expert meeting titled New Challenges to Freedom of Expression: Countering Online Abuse of Female Journalists which produced a publication of the same title that includes the voices of journalists and academics on the realities of online abuse of women journalists and how it can be combated. [45] She was well known in London society and had a long-term relationship with the actor Sir Henry Irving. In 1993, Gardner became the first woman ever to broadcast play-by-play of a baseball game, calling the action of a game between the Cincinnati Reds and Colorado Rockies. Burke has worked alongside legendary college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, working men's games for ESPN and ABC. When he died suddenly in 1885, Emily inherited his position and continued in the role until 1907. Visser is married to long-time national sportscaster Dick Stockton. There are thousand of females working as newscasters in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. Sallie Tisdale: an editor and writer of deeply felt, often first-person pieces for magazines like Harpers, the New Yorker, Salon and the New York Times. [45] Marie's brother was writer and satirist Hilaire Belloc. Douglas Edwards: became in 1948 one of Americas first television newscasters, hosting a show that became CBSs Douglas Edwards with the News, and later morphed into the CBS Evening News. . [41] An important event occurred in 1910, when the popular novel Pennskaftet by Elin Wgner made the journalist's profession a popular career choice for women, and women career journalists were often referred to as "pennskaft". Heggestad, Eva: Kritik och kn. More postings here: http://latvnewsreporters.blogspot.comA collection of the men and women news anchors and reporters in Los Angeles that kept us informed as. In 1939, Elsa Nyblom became vice chairperson of the Publicistklubben. Andrea Mitchell: a journalist, anchor and commentator for NBC News and MSNBC, she has been the networks Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent since 1994. Some were viewed as mere "eye candy", while others garnered awards and critical success. And, alas, I fear this list, stretching back to people working in 1912, reflects the difficulty women had obtaining important positions in journalism for the bulk of the last 100 years.". David Remnick: Remnick, a former Washington Post reporter, won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Lenins Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire and in 1998 became the editor of the New Yorker, for which he also writes and reporters. Roone Arledge: the long-time president of ABC Sports and ABC News, Arledge launched Monday Night Football and helped turn ABC News from an also-ran in the 1970s into a leading news organization. The report recorded 85 cases, where three women journalists were also killed. Over the course of the following thirty years, Carillo has been honored with numerous awards for her coverage of tennis, and is largely considered to be the sport's top analyst. Herbert Bayard Swope: a reporter and editor at the New York World who won the first Pulitzer Prize for Reporting in 1917 for a series on Germany and later edited the Worlds Pulitzer Prize-winning series Klan Exposed.. Barbara Ehrenreich: a journalist and political activist who authored 21 books, including Nickel and Dimed, published in 2001, an expose of the living and working conditions of the working poor. Connie Chung started her career as a CBS correspondent for the legendary Walter Cronkite. "[85] According to Holly Kruse, both popular music articles and academic articles about pop music are usually written from "masculine subject positions. 1 Female Sportscaster of all-time, and was honored by the Pro Football Hall of Fame as the 2006 recipient of the Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award which recognizes long-time exceptional contributions to radio and television in professional football. Langston Hughes: a poet and playwright, Hughes also wrote a weekly column for the Chicago Defender from 1942 to 1962. A noted example of this development was Synnve Bellander, editor of the women's section "Hus och hem" at Svenska Dagbladet in 193259. She recently served as Yahoo's Global News Anchor. Truman Capote: a novelist whose exhaustively reported and lyrically written 1965 nonfiction novel, In Cold Blood, was one of the most respected works of new journalism.. Phyllis R. Blakeley, "HERBERT, MARY ELIZA," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. Harris, Janet, Nick Mosdell, and James Griffiths. This was slightly lower than the historical average of 93 percent of men journalists killed annually for their work, with The Intercept theorizing that the drop was perhaps due to women being assigned more frequently to dangerous locales.[3]. (CBC Still Photo Collection) She landed last at ABC News, and retired from there in 2009. She suffered the hardships of siege when she sheltered in the cellar of the Marshall House during the failed retreat of the British army. David Halberstam: a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, known for his coverage of Vietnam, the civil rights movement, politics, and sports. Edited by Becky Gardiner. [45], One of the first British war correspondents was the writer Lady Florence Dixie who reported on the First Boer War, 18801881, as field correspondent for The Morning Post. Mary Carillo was a former women's professional tennis player before having her career cut short by knee injuries in 1980. [58] After the War, she stood up for Palestinian rights against much hostility. On November 9, 1989, Brokaw made history by becoming the first English-language broadcast journalist to cover the collapse of the Berlin Wall. He is .more #8 of 50 The Most Trustworthy Newscasters on TV Today #23 of 51 The Best Regular Guests on Morning Joe #22 of 30 Famous Model Train Hobbyists 6 As a result, over 100 affiliates were forced to broadcast six minutes of empty air. During the 18th century, women were active as publishers, chief editors and journalists in the French press. Kornheiser's criticism earned him a suspension from ESPN for two weeks. This development in the women's sections gradually transformed them to sections for "family" and private life for both sexes, and blurred the line to the rest of the paper. The American music critic Ann Powers, as a female critic and journalist, has written critiques on the perceptions of sex, racial and social minorities in the music industry. Jane Kramer: a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1964, writing mostly from Europe. Jack Newfield: a pioneering, socially committed investigative journalist from the 1960s into the 1990s, mostly for the Village Voice. Grantland Rice: known as the Dean of American Sports Writers; he wrote this on the 1924 Notre Dame backfield: Outlined against a blue-gray October sky the Four Horsemen rode again. who, since 1989, has reexamined civil-rights cases; his investigations have led to arrests of several Ku Klux Klan members. C.J. Sandy Lee Miller is a journalist and news anchor from Missouri. Richard Harding Davis: journalist and fiction writer, whose powerfully written reports on major events, such as the Spanish-American War and the First World War, made him one of the best-known journalists of his time. "[86] As well, there are relatively few women writing in music journalism: "By 1999, the number of female editors or senior writers at Rolling Stone hovered around15%, [while] at Spin and Raygun, [it was] roughly 20%. Although Sierens was offered six additional opportunities to broadcast games for NBC, her employer at the time, WFLA-TV in Tampa, Florida, would not allow her to continue working for both NBC and the local affiliate. Dallas Townsend: a broadcast journalist who wrote and anchored the CBS World News Roundup on radio from the 1950s into the 1980s and stayed at the network for 44 years. International Media Womens Foundation and International News Safety Institute 2013. Donald L. Barlett: an investigative journalist who, along with his colleague James B. Steele, won two Pulitzer Prizes and multiple other awards for his powerful investigative series from the 1970s through the 1990s at the Philadelphia Inquirer and later at Time magazine. Vote for Your Favourite Female TV Anchors 1 Martha Stewart (Businesswoman) News Anchors From The 80s - 80s Fashion 2012. ORourke: after he left the National Lampoon in 1981, a libertarian writer and humorist for Rolling Stone and also publications like the Atlantic Monthly and the American Spectator. In 2010, Campbell provided coverage of women's hockey for the 2010 Winter Olympics. [7], In the period from 2012 through 2016, UNESCO's Director-General denounced the killing of 38 women journalists, representing 7 per cent of all journalists killed. Linda Greenhouse: a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who covered the US Supreme Court for the New York Times for more than 25 years, beginning in 1978. Jennings would host the show from the show's new headquarters in New York City. Unity, for example, an organization of journalists of color, has released in response a seed list of accomplished journalists with diverse backgrounds. Morley Safer: a CBS reporter who exposed atrocities committed by American soldiers in the village of Cam Ne in Vietnam and reported for 60 Minutes beginning in 1970. Wells: prominent civil rights activist whose 1892 editorial on the lynching of three black men earn her popularity; she wrote her autobiography Crusade for Justice in 1928. [37], During the 19th century, women participated with articles in the press, especially within the culture sections and a translators, notably Magdalene Thoresen, who has by some been referred to as an early female journalist: from 1856, Marie Colban (18141884) lived in Paris, from where she wrote articles for Morgenbladet and Illustreret Nyhedsblad, for which she can be regarded as the first female foreign correspondent in the Norwegian press. These lists are intended to begin, not end, a conversation on what makes for outstanding journalism. [10] In 2016, the Council of Europes Committee of Ministers adopted recommendation CM/Rec(2016)4 on the protection of journalism and safety of journalists and other media actors, in particular noting the gender-specific threats that many journalists face and calling for urgent, resolute and systematic responses. "Colorado Has the Only Woman Sporting Editor". Adrian Nicole LeBlanc: author of Random Family, the acclaimed non-fiction book published in 2002 about the relations of drug dealers in the South Bronx. Bob Schieffer: a calm, insightful voice since 1969 at CBS News, where he has served as an anchor, as chief Washington correspondent and as host of Face the Nation. News Murray Kempton: a journalist whose long, stately sentences and short tolerance for pretense made him one of New Yorks most revered columnists and reporters; he wrote for the New York Post, the New York Review of Books, and, beginning in 1981, for Newsday. Greil Marcus: a journalist and cultural critic who both helped to legitimize rock n roll and place it in a larger social and cultural context through such books as Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock n Roll Music, published in 1975. However, William Osborne points out that this 26 percent figure includes all newspapers, including low-circulation regional papers. [28] Caroline Rmy de Guebhard, pen-name Severine, was employed by the Cri du Peuple in 1880s and has been referred to as the first female reporter in France. She worked for NBC News from 1989 to 2006, CBS News from 2006 to 2011, and ABC News from 2011 to 2014. George Seldes: an award-winning investigative journalist and media critic, Seldes exposed many faults in newspaper coverage and discussed taboo issues in his weekly newsletter In Fact, which he published from 1940 to 1950. In 1891, Rachel Beer became the first female editor of a national newspaper in the UK when she became editor of The Observer. Jennings would host the show from the shows new headquarters in New York City. Lois Hart and David Walker: The married team of Hart and Walker co-anchored CNN's first newscast on June 1, 1980. Joan Didion: a literary journalist, novelist and memoirist, who helped invent new journalism in the 1960s and whose judgmental but superbly written articles have become standard texts in many journalism departments. Frances Johnston: one of the earliest and best-known female photojournalists, Johnston covered a range of stories, including the Spanish-American War, photographed many politicians and, in the 1920s, focused on architecture. E. B. Claude A. Barnett: a Chicago Defender journalist who started the Associated Negro Press, a news service for black newspapers, in 1919. But let's take a moment to look at the women journalists, who, by sheer force of making their way onto this grouping in which fewer women are represented, seem inherently to have fought a harder battle to start with. Eugene Robinson: a journalist, columnist and assistant managing editor at the Washington Post who won the Pulitzer Prize for his opinion pieces during the 2008 presidential campaign. She played an active role in women's suffrage. Demos. Vote for Your Favourite Women Journalists 1 Barbara Walters Their real names are: Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden.. [41] In 1858, Louise Flodin came to be regarded as an important pioneer when she founded her own newspaper, became the first woman to be given a newspaper license, and composed a staff entirely of women employees,[41] and Eva Brag became an important pioneer during her career at Gteborgs Handels- och Sjfartstidning in 18651889.