Lifetime of News: A Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.56 (725 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072WB97NQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 270 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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A Must-Read Remembrance of the Beginnings of Broadcast News Joseph Saltzman This is an important book because it explores the early days of television news when women and people of color were ignored by the major broadcasting news operations in the country. Lorraine Hillman was there at the beginning of the Los Angeles news operation of KNXT, a CBS owned-and-operated station when that organization created the standard for the one-hour evening local news program. "The Big News" was the . Ray Detournay said SHE WAS THERE:. Lorraine Hillman’s memoir, Lifetime of News, is a must read for several reasons. It accurately chronicles the birth and development of the modern television news format that is still in use by almost every broadcaster in the United States. What makes the story unusual is it’s told from the viewpoint of one of the first women to work in a television newsroom…typically the domain of hard chargi. Pete Noyes said a "Lifetime of News" One Woman's storty of crashing through TV's glass ceiling.. When I first reported to work 1n 1961 at KNXT-TV, the CBS station in Los Angeles. the only woman working in the newsroom atthat time was office secretary, Betty Penny. There was truly a glass ceiling barring women from the work place. But the glass ceiling waswidely splintered a few years latter when a young single mother from Culver City, Ca. was hired under the guise of office secretary but in realityshe woul
Her work has earned eight Golden Mike Awards for excellence in TV news coverage, multiple Los Angeles Press Club awards, and two Emmys. Both the mayor and the Los Angeles City Council have honored her achievements.. Now retired, author Lorraine Hillman had an illustrious forty-year career in television news
About the AuthorNow retired, author Lorraine Hillman had an illustrious forty-year career in television news. Her work has earned eight Golden Mike Awards for excellence in TV news coverage, multiple Los Angeles Press Club awards, and two Emmys. Both the mayor and the Los Angeles City Council have honored her achievements.
Simpson trial. But Hillman didn’t stop there. But she also pushed for diversity and inclusion in the newsroom, finally seeing more women and minorities added to Channel 2’s staff.You don’t spend a lifetime in news without collecting a few stories of your own, and Hillman’s is one of courage and passion. In the 1960s, behind the scenes of a major news station was no place for a woman. She read the papers voraciously, eventually setting a career in news as her goal—and young Hillman took her first step toward that goal in 1957, when she was hired as an entry-level secretary for CBS’s Television City. J. Hillman helped cover historical landmarks, like the Manson cult and the O. She was one of only two women among forty-two white men.The next decades were as interesting offscreen as on. Yet it was exactly where Lorraine Hillman was meant to be.Hillman grew up in Hollywood, fascinated with the action-packed world of news. She pestered the bureau chief for a job in the newsroom until, six years later, she finally landed one with Channel 2 in Los Angeles. See her determination for yourself in this tell-all memoir.