The News Sorority

Description for THE NEWS SORORITY: DIANE SAWYER, KATIE COURIC, CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR---AND THE (ONGOING, IMPERFECT, COMPLICATED) TRIUMPF OF WOMEN IN TV NEWS by Sheila Weller: For decades, women battered the walls of the male fortress of television journalism. After fierce struggles, three women?ÇöDiane Sawyer, Katie Couric, and Christiane Amanpour?Çöbroke into the newsroom?ÇÖs once impenetrable ?ǣboys?ÇÖ club.?ǥ These women were not simply pathbreakers, but wildly gifted journalists whose unique talents enabled them to climb to the top of the corporate ladder and transform the way Americans received their news. Drawing on exclusive interviews with their colleagues and intimates from childhood on, The News Sorority crafts a lively and exhilarating narrative that reveals the hard struggles and inner strengths that shaped these women and powered their success. Life outside the newsroom?Çölove, loss, child rearing?Çöwould mark them all, complicating their lives even as it deepened th