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English
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"In an industry dominated by white men, Connie Chung stood alone, the first and only Asian woman to break into the television news industry. This is her extraordinary story, told with incisive wit and remarkable candor. Connie Chung is a pioneer. In 1969 at the age of 23, this once-shy daughter of Chinese parents took her first job at a local TV station in her hometown of Washington, D.C. and soon thereafter began working at CBS news as a correspondent....
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Description
306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
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The wild inside story of the birth of CNN and dawn of the age of 24-hour news. How did we get from an age of dignified nightly news broadcasts on three national networks to the age of 24-hour channels and constantly breaking news? The answer-thanks to Ted Turner and an oddball cast of cable television visionaries, big league rejects, and nonunion newbies-can be found in the basement of an abandoned country club in Atlanta. Because it was there, in...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Description
vii, 195 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
This is a work of media history and criticism with a human face. It presents profiles of 11 journalists who left big mainstream media outlets to take on new career challenges. Their stories give the reader a vivid sense of what it means to be a reporter and to cover big news events. But this book goes beyond media memoir. The book also explores the factors that led talented people to reassess he profession they loved, and raises questions about the...
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