Jessica Savitch

Jessica Savitch

01-Feb-1947


Andorra


Television news presenter

Jessica Beth Savitch was a well-known American TV journalist. She was the first woman to be assigned to evening broadcasts in the Southern United States in the late 1970's. She has worked as an anchor for the weekend of NBC Nightly News and presented daily updates on NBC News. Jessica also hosted a documentary program called 'PBS's Public Affairs' on an American TV series called 'Frontline' which was launched in January 1983 and was linked to the program until she died in a road accident later that year. Savitch was famous for her audience's versatility and camera reading skills. Savitch, on the other hand, has also criticized his misinformation in the live broadcast of a short update of NBC News and her poor life. She started her first career as a news reader with a local radio station. Her father was the one who encouraged her to take up the profession of journalism. With that encouragement, she decided to pursue a career in communications. After the first wars, Jessica became a well-known journalist in the early 1980's demanding compensation equal to that of the male actors and writers of the time. Jessica was involved in a fatal road accident on October 23, 1983.

QUOTES BY Jessica Savitch


"The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself."

"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right."

"Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities."

"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."

"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."

"Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time."

"Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians."

"The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage."

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