Related Articles: Lessons From the Front Lines
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Broadcast News
9/2/2009 12:00:00 AMFor Connie Chung, Diane Sawyer's appointment as the second woman to solo-anchor a network evening newscast is just as historic as when current CBS News anchor Katie Couric broke the gender barrier three years ago and plopped herself into the chair once occupied by Walter Cronkite. As the second woman to co-anchor an evening news telecast (with Dan Rather on The CBS Evening News, 1993-1995), Chung has a strong sense of how the anchor desk sits at the crossroads of history. "Katie broke ground, but what has happened today with Diane means Katie's appointment wasn't just an aberration or a token gesture, not that anyone thought it was," Chung told NEWSWEEK shortly after news broke that Sawyer would succeed Charles Gibson on ABC's World News Tonight. "But what breaks the ceiling is not just having one male cheerleader on the squad. We have never seen two women solo anchors on the networks' flagship program[s]."
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FACTCHECK.ORG
Energetically Wrong
9/12/2008 12:00:00 AMAlaska did produce 14 percent of all the oil from U.S. wells last year, but that's a far cry from all the "energy" produced in the U.S.
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MEDIA
The Future of Broadcast News
4/11/2008 12:00:00 AMCBS News had a problem. It was 1952 and the network had dispatched its stars to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, the first ever to be nationally televised. But CBS wanted to showcase an impressive rookie, a local newsman from Washington, D.C., named Walter Cronkite. How to organize the broadcast? A young producer named Don Hewitt, the future mastermind behind "60 Minutes," conjured up the image of a relay race. Each on-air journalist would do a segment and then hand off to the next. Cronkite would get the last word. He'd be the "anchor leg." Three days later, when it was over, Dwight D. Eisenhower was the Republican nominee, millions of households had tuned in and Cronkite was on his way to becoming the "most trusted man in America."
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N.H. Debate: The GOP Field
1/6/2008 12:00:00 AMSummaryRepublican and Democratic candidates participated in double-header debates in New Hampshire Jan. 5 in advance of the state's first-in-the-nation primary. Republicans were up first, and they got a little wild with their swings:
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The Anchor
5/25/2006 12:00:00 AM
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