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Pauline Frederick Reporting A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War

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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

Title Pauline Frederick Reporting A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War / Marilyn S. Greenwald
foreword by Marlene Sanders.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Lincoln : Potomac Books/University of Nebraska Press
Manufacture Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE
Creation Date 2014
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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
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Extent 1 online resource (391 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014.
National Library system number 997010716181205171
MARC RECORDS
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