The News Sorority Read online

  Zakaria, Fareed. “Palin Is Ready? Please.” Newsweek, September 28, 2008.

  Zoglin, Richard. “Star Power: Diane Sawyer.” Time, August 7, 1989.

  Zoglin, Richard, and William Tynan. “Good Morning, Diane.” Time, January 18, 1999.

  OTHER ONLINE SOURCES

  Amanpour, Christiane, “Find the Thing That Ignites Your Passion, Engages Your Mind and Dare to Lead.” California Women’s Conference 2008 Web site, October 2008.

  Amanpour, Christiane, and Ed Bradley. “2000 Murrow Awards Ceremony Acceptance Speech.” Radio Television Digital News Association, RTDNA.org, September 13, 2000.

  Andreeva, Nellie. “Yahoo Announces Deal with Katie Couric.” DeadlineHollywood.com, November 25, 2013.

  Ariens, Chris. “Gibson Retires, Sawyer to World News: Diane’s Statement.” TVNewser, Mediabistro.com, September 2, 2009.

  ———. “Here’s the Katie Couric We Haven’t Seen in a While.” TVNewser, Mediabistro .com, January 24, 2013.

  “Christiane Amanpour’s Address to University of Michigan Spring Commencement.” University of Michigan News Service, April 29, 2006, Bentley.UMich.edu.

  Coffee, Patrick. “Katie Couric Scores Manti Te’o Interview (They Share a Publicist, BTW).” PRNewser.com, January 24, 2013.

  Ephron, Nora. “Nora Ephron’s Commencement Address to Wellesley Class of 1996.” Huffington Post, June 26, 2012.

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  Finke, Nikki. “Update: More Diane Does Mel.” Deadline.com, October 10, 2006.

  “Fitzgerald: A Tribute to Christiane Amanpour,” anonymous anti-Amanpour rebuttal. JihadWatch.org, January 19, 2007.

  Gibson, Charlie. “Charlie Gibson’s Announcement E-mail: ‘I Love This Department to the Depths of My Soul.’” Huffington Post, September 2, 2009.

  Gloria Steinem. GloriaSteinem.com.

  Hilton, Perez. “Katie Couric’s ‘Dreadfully Boring’ Show Is a ‘Disaster!’ ABC Desperate to Replace Her.” PerezHilton.com, June 5, 2013.

  Jay Monahan Center for Gastrointestinal Health, MonahanCenter.org.

  Kennedy, Lesley. “Katie Couric Admits to Bulimia Struggles.” More.com.

  “Keynote Speaker, Christiane Amanpour: International Center for Journalists Awards Dinner.” International Center for Journalists, November 12, 2008, ICFJ.org.

  Morabito, Andrea. “New CBS News Chair: ‘I Don’t Know Whether’ Couric Wants to Stay.” BroadcastingCable.com, February 8, 2011.

  National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance, Entertainment Industry Foundation, EIFoundation.org.

  Numerous blog posts by and biographies about Frank Gannon, NixonLibrary.gov.

  Piers Morgan Tonight: “Interview with Christiane Amanpour,” June 22, 2011. Transcript.

  Stableford, Dylan. “Tenacious D: Why Diane Sawyer Deserves Anchor Slot.” Mediabistro .com, September 16, 2009.

  Stelter, Brian. “Today’s Tom Touchet Is Fired.” TVNewser, Mediabistro.com, April 19, 2005.

  “Still Dreaming Big: Diane Sawyer Answers Questions About Dreams, Faith and Advice.” Guideposts.com, February 17, 2006.

  Tresca, Amber J. “Colorectal Screening Gets ‘The Katie Couric Effect’ as Popular Morning Show Host Gets a Colonoscopy On Air.” About.com, November 22, 2012.

  Tyndall, Andrew. “Year in Review: 2013: ABC News Is Certifiably Disneyfied.” TyndallReport.com.

  Weprin, Alex. “Andrew Tyndall on Diane Sawyer and the Chilean Miners.” Mediabistro .com, October 17, 2010.

  ———. “Katie Couric: ‘Some Said I Lacked “Gravitas,” Which I’ve Since Decided Is Latin for “Testicles.” ’” TVNewser, Mediabistro.com, May 21, 2012.

  White, Deborah. “Profile of Christiane Amanpour, CNN International Correspondent.” About.com.

  Wilmouth, Brad. “MSNBC’s Abrams Hits CNN’s Amanpour for Defending Islamic Fundamentalism.” NewsBusters.com, August 28, 2007.

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  PERSONAL E-MAILS AND PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

  Amanpour, Christiane. “To My Family at CNN.” E-mail to CNN staff, March 23, 2012.

  Sawyer, Diane. “Thanks.” E-mail to ABC TV staff, April 17, 2013.

  PRESS RELEASES

  Numerous press releases from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and other news organizations, including biographies of Diane, Katie, Christiane, and numerous producers and executives.

  “UM Study: Katie Couric’s Colonoscopy Caused Cross-country Climb in Colon Cancer Checks,” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 14, 2013.

  TV BROADCASTS, TRANSCRIPTS, AND YOUTUBE CLIPS

  “1994—Amanpour Questions Bill Clinton.” YouTube, posted by F Fan, April 5, 2012.

  “A Tribute to JFK Jr. on the Second Anniversary of His Death,” interview with Christiane Amanpour, including transcript from July 15, 1999. Larry King Weekend, CNN.com, July 15, 2002. Transcript.

  Amanpour, Christiane. “Amanpour: World Fails to Save Africa’s AIDS Orphans.” CNN. Transcript.

  Amanpour, Christiane, and Ed Bradley. “The Best of Intentions: UNICEF and the Government of Bangladesh Put in New Pumps and Wells for the People So They Would Not Be Sick Anymore; Now They Are Dying from These New Pumps.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, June 6, 1999. Transcript.

  Amanpour, Christiane, and Mike Wallace. “A Million Men, Women and Children: Rwandan Courts Try to Deal with the After-Effects of Genocide.” 60 Minutes, CBS News. Transcript.

  ———. “For Love and Money: Breaking the Silence That Surrounds Dowry in India.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, October 5, 2003. Transcript.

  ———. “The Women of Afghanistan: A Look at Changes in the Way Women Are Treated in Post-Taliban Afghanistan.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, October 20, 2002. Transcript.

  ———. “Weapons of Mass Destruction: Russia’s Storehouse of Deadly Biological Weapons.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, May 11, 2003. Transcript.

  Amanpour, Christia
ne, and Morley Safer. “Scars of War: Helping the Child Soldiers of Sierra Leone.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, May 19, 2002. Transcript.

  ———. “Thou Shalt Not Kill: Children in Uganda Kidnapped by Rebel Forces and Made to Fight and Kill or Face Execution Themselves.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, March 22, 1998. Transcript.

  Amanpour, Christiane, and Steve Kroft. “Sleeping Sickness: Dr. Mickey Richer Helps Africans with Fatal Sleeping Sickness for Which Pharmaceutical Companies Have Stopped Making a Cure.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, February 11, 2001. Transcript.

  ———. “Sunni Triangle: Challenges Facing U.S. Soldiers in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, February 8, 2004. Transcript.

  ———. “Trokosi: Young Girls Sent into Slavery Because of Past Crimes Committed by Family Members Years Ago.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, November 30, 1997. Transcript.

  “Billion-Dollar Business: Poverty-Stricken Eastern Europe Making Billions of Dollars by Transporting Women to Work in Western Cities in the Sex Trade.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, June 3, 2001. Transcript.

  “Christiane Amanpour: My First Big Break.” YouTube, posted by Mediabistro, January 2, 2013. Transcript.

  “Columbine Interview: NBC_630.” KatieCouric.com, April 22, 1999.

  Couric, Katie. “Ahmadinejad: The Status Quo Cannot Keep.” CBS Evening News, September 23, 2009. Transcript.

  ———. “Exclusive: John and Elizabeth Edwards Open Up About Cancer, Unconditional About Couple’s Decision on Presidential Run,” 60 Minutes, CBS News, March 24, 2007. YouTube and transcript.

  ———. Interviews with Sarah Palin and John McCain. CBSNews.com. Transcripts.

  ———. “My Speech to Princeton’s Class of 2009.” KatieCouric.com, July 31, 2009.

  ———. “Sharon and Lexie Love and the Dating Violence Epidemic.” KatieCouric.com, September 20, 2012.

  “Good Morning America, ABC Sept. 11, 2011 8 31 am—9 12 am.” YouTube, posted by bydesign001, September 11, 2012. Transcript by Sheila Weller.

  “Katie: Talk That Matters.” KatieCouric.com.

  “Katie Couric Talks About Her New Book, Her New Look, and Life After Tragedy.” Larry King Live, CNN, December 18, 2000. Transcript.

  “Lara Logan Breaks Her Silence.” 60 Minutes, CBS News, May 1, 2011.

  Sawyer, Diane, with David Muir. “Video Witnesses Claim Miracle Man Saved Car Crash Victim.” ABCNews.com, August 9, 2013.

  ———. “Young Guns: A Diane Sawyer Special.” 20/20, ABC.com, January 31, 2014. Video and transcript.

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  “TODAY Katie Couric’s Last Show.” YouTube, posted by Justin Anderson, November 11, 2013.

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  YouTube clips of Mel Gibson talking to Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America and Primetime, 2004 and 2006.

  OTHER SOURCES

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  Blue Notes of Wellesley College, You Ain’t Been Blue. Record album, privately produced, 1966.

  “Diane Sawyer.” Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago.

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  Web- and otherwise-accessed brief biographies of figures in news, politics, business, communications, and private life.

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  INDEX

  The page numbers in this index refer to the printed version of this book. To find the corresponding locations in the text of this digital version, please use the “search” function on your e-reader. Note that not all terms may be searchable.

  ABC:

  and Christiane, 390–95, 415–16, 424

  and Diane, 105, 158–64, 169, 172, 177–78, 259–71, 284–93, 356, 368–78, 403, 414, 415, 431–33

  and Katie, 105–7, 414, 417–21, 425–27, 429–30

  and Walters, 172–75

  women’s activism in, 156–58

  ABC World News, 368–78, 407, 425, 431–33

  Abrams, Dan, 331

  Adelson, Merv, 173

  Afghanistan:

  Christiane in, 10, 12–15, 231, 302, 314, 315–16

  Diane in, 373

  Africa, AIDS in, 325, 328–29

  Ahmadinejad, Mahmoud, 359, 367, 371–72, 373, 412

  Albright, Madeleine, 14, 300, 367

  Allen, Woody, 197

  Amanpour, 383–88, 417

  Amanpour, Christiane, 10–16, 69–92, 212–54, 298–332

  and ABC, 390–95, 415–16, 424

  ambition of, 82, 86–88, 215, 216, 218–19, 221, 222, 332, 380, 389

  awards to, 15, 212, 331–32

  birth and childhood, 69–74, 216

  career trajectory of, 23, 220–21, 222–23, 230, 235, 236, 298, 327, 329–31, 389, 434, 435

  and CNN, see CNN

  and competition, 396–97, 403, 415–17

  in danger zones, 16, 23, 223, 229–31, 235, 309, 313, 396, 398; see also specific venues

  and documentaries, 324, 330–31, 380, 381, 385

  in exile, 81–82, 84, 86, 95, 229, 305, 435

  and family, 217–18, 221–22, 304–5, 307–9, 311, 315, 322, 325–26, 328–29, 380, 422–23; see also Rubin, Darius John

  globe-hopping, 251–54, 311–12, 314–15, 321–25, 332, 374

  on intervention, 427–29

  and interviews, 192, 252, 253, 307, 310, 312, 326–28, 330–31, 371, 380, 381, 387, 394, 398–99, 400–401, 403, 429

  and Jamie, see Rubin, Jamie

  in London, 309–11, 312, 324, 423, 424

  in New York, 379–95

  on-air persona of, 221, 228, 243

  personal traits of, 23, 79, 87, 116, 214–16, 218, 253–54, 382

  power sensitivity of, 216, 222, 316–17, 322, 331

  prominence of, 235, 249–50, 251, 314, 332, 379, 382

  schooling of, 74–77, 79

  and 60 Minutes, 250, 252, 311, 312–14, 315–16, 318, 326

  at University of Rhode Island, 82–84, 88, 213

  Amanpour, Elizabeth “Lizzy” (sister), 69, 70, 73, 79, 81–82, 222, 298, 301, 304, 312

  Amanpour, Fiona (sister), 69, 73, 79

  Amanpour, Leila (sister), 69, 73, 74, 81–82, 86, 219, 221–22

  Amanpour, Mohammed (father), 69–70, 79, 81, 95, 303

  Amanpour, Patricia Hill (mother), 69–70, 73, 81–82, 95, 223

  Amanpour Factor, 11–12, 21

  America’s Junior Miss pageant, 34–36, 53, 363

  Andrews, Suzanne, 372

  Andrukonis, Barbara Cherney, 95–97, 103, 127, 269

  Aquino, Corazon, 146

  Arab Spring, 397–400

  Arafat, Yasir, 202–3, 243, 341

  Arledge, Roone, 105, 110, 111, 156–61, 165, 172–73, 175, 250, 262

  Arnett, Peter, 228–29

  Aro, Margaret, 358, 371

  Bairin, Pierre, 11, 231, 242, 248, 249, 321, 328–29

  Bakhash, Shaul, 77, 78, 80, 84

  Bangladesh, Christiane in, 305–6, 325

  Banner, Jon, 362, 369, 372, 373, 374–75, 376, 432

  Bay, Willow, 380, 383, 390

  Beecher, Lori, 196, 204, 205, 269

  Bell, Martin, 2
38

  Bellew, Diane, 73, 74, 75–76, 79, 85, 218–19, 223, 298, 302, 303

  Bennett, Tony, 203, 341

  Bergen, Candice, 112, 144

  Berger, Alan, 283, 294

  Bernknopf, David, 89, 91–92, 125, 212–16, 221, 223, 245, 247, 249, 251, 308, 316, 399

  Bernstein, Carl, 60

  Bessette, Carolyn (Kennedy), 86, 304, 306

  Bobb, Aviva, 37, 38, 39

  Bogart, Humphrey, 210

  Bonino, Emma, 13

  Bosnia:

  Christiane in, 11, 12, 224, 228, 229, 230–49, 301, 314, 391, 416

  Siege of Sarajevo, 230, 234

  Srebrenica Massacre, 11, 248–49

  Bradlee, Ben, 379–80

  Bradley, Ed, 146, 294, 349

  Brinkley, David, 29, 110

  Brokaw, Tom, 112, 176, 182, 189, 284, 288, 352, 395, 396

  Browne, Don, 124–25, 181, 184, 185, 186, 188, 341

  Buch, Al, 121, 122–23

  Buchanan, Pat, 192, 341

  Burger, Warren, 54

  Bush, Barbara, 193, 200

  Bush, George H. W., 136, 146, 192–93, 200, 266, 341

  Bush, George W., 175, 287, 295, 309, 412

  Buss, Frances (Buch), 45–46

  Campbell, Arch, 123–24

  Carsey, Marcy, 276

  Carter, Bill, 283, 368, 420, 424

  Cassidy, Steve, 243

  Castro, Fidel, 48, 117

  CBS:

  and Diane, 131–38, 139–44

  dress code in, 60–61

  and Katie, 21, 293–97, 337–38, 339, 342–56, 363–67, 407–13, 424, 425

  CBS Evening News, 21, 148, 169, 295, 339, 342–48, 352–53, 407–13, 414–15, 420, 425

  CBS Morning News, 137–38, 139–44, 259

  CBS News, 294–97, 337–39, 343, 346–51, 375–76, 397, 408–11, 415

  CBS This Morning, 136, 137, 177

  Chancellor, John, 56, 110

  Chase, Sylvia, 61

  Chou En-lai, 56

  Chumbley (Lora), Alice, 6, 31, 32, 33, 36, 267

  Chung, Connie, 60, 61–62, 63, 105, 131–32, 169–70, 368

  Civil Rights Act (1964), 60

  Clinton, Bill, 192, 193, 200, 245–46, 265, 393, 428

  Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 38, 272, 283, 342, 354, 379, 433