The News Sorority: Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Christiane Amanpour -- and the (ongoing, Imperfect, Complicated) Triumph of Women in TV...
- ISBN-10
- 0143127772
- ISBN-13
- 9780143127772
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 481
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Author
- Sheila Weller
Description
A provocative critique of three influential women in television broadcast news draws on exclusive interviews with colleagues and confidantes to reveal how their combinations of ambition, intellect and talent rendered them cultural icons. By the author of Girls Like Us. 75,000 first printing.
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