Speak up : breaking the glass ceiling at CBS News / Linda Mason ; foreword by Connie Chung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mason, Linda, author.

Contributor:

Chung, Connie, 1946- writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women television producers and directors--United States--Biography.

Women television producers and directors.

Television broadcasting of news--United States.

Television broadcasting of news.

CBS News--Biography.

CBS News.

Mason, Linda.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (181 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2023]

Summary:

Follow one of the first women network news producers as she climbs the career ladder right through the headlines of American history. Mason recounts career highlights of working side-by-side with media giants such as Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, covering history-in-the-making as she smashed the glass ceiling of the network news world.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

1. HELLO, FIDEL!

2. GROWING UP

3. CBS-HERE I AM

4. THE MOST TRUSTED MAN IN AMERICA

5. STANDARDS: The Secret Sauce

6. CBS SCANDAL: Drugs, Payola, and the Mafia

7. I FACE THE JURY

8. WORK AT WORK, WORK AT HOME

9. WOMEN'S PLACE AT WORK

10. WEEKEND NEWS, HERE I COME

11. THE STORY MAN: Charles Kuralt

12. TURMOIL AT TIANANMEN SQUARE

13. RATHER AT THE HELM

14. CBS IN TURMOIL

15. A DREAM FULFILLED: Documentaries

16. VIETNAM: Twenty Years Later

17. TOO CLOSE TO CALL

18. 9/11

19. CRISIS SHAKES CBS NEWS TO ITS ROOTS

20. HEARTACHE IN BAGHDAD

21. CRONKITE'S MEMORIAL SERVICE

22. THE FUTURE: Digital News

23. OFF THE CLOCK: Life after CBS News

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SOURCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-5381-7641-6

OCLC:

1374425702