The First Crack in Media's Glass Ceiling

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 20, 2015

Marilyn Greenwald and Marlene Sanders discuss the life and career of the first woman to become a network news correspondent, Pauline Frederick. Greenwald's book Pauline Frederick Reporting: A Pioneering Broadcaster Covers the Cold War, with a foreword by Sanders, covers Frederick’s nearly fifty years as a journalist, including interviewing a young Fidel Castro, the Nuremberg trials, and becoming the first woman to moderate a presidential debate.

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