Summary
When Diane Sawyer takes over as the anchor of ABC's Evening News on Monday, Eleanor Schano will be watching.
Her thoughts will wander back to the early 1950s, when she started in television and was often considered nothing more a "chick in the newsroom." She will remember being promoted to news anchor at WIIC-TV (now WPXI) in 1974, and the "hue and cry" raised by those who felt it was not a woman's place to deliver the news. She will think about how isolated she felt, how frustrated it was to be passed over for assignments and promotions.See the full content of this document
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Is Sawyer's New Gig a Win for Older Women?
"Now, the pendulum has swung the other way," Schano says. "Now 66.7 percent of the news anchors are women."
Sawyer joins Katie Couric of the CBS Evening News in anchoring two of the three network broadcast evening news programs; Brian Wi...See the full content of this document
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