Pauline Frederick Reporting A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War / Marilyn S. Greenwald ; foreword by Marlene Sanders.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenwald, Marilyn S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cold War--Press coverage--United States.

Cold War.

Women journalists--United States--Biography.

Women journalists.

Frederick, Pauline.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pauline Frederick Reporting is the biography of the life and career of the first woman to become a network news correspondent. After no less an authority than Edward R. Murrow told her there was no place for her in broadcasting, Pauline Frederick (1908-90) cracked the good old boys' club through determination and years of hard work, eventually becoming a trusted voice to millions of television viewers. During Frederick's nearly fifty years as a journalist, she interviewed a young Fidel Castro, covered the Nuremberg trials, interpreted diplomatic actions at the United Nations, and was the first

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Photographs; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chronology; 1. A Quirk of Fate; 2. Polly the Prizewinner; 3. Talking about Serious Things; 4. Television's Merciless Eye; 5. Crisis Pauline; 6. Perils of Pauline; 7. The Great Assembly Hall; 8. If Not Miss Frederick, Who?; 9. Death of the Peacock; 10. Liberating the Airwaves; 11. Good News, Bad News, and Agnews; 12. Full Circle; 13. Out of the Box; Notes and Sources; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61234-678-2

OCLC:

898422058