Sentences with phrase «first woman reporter»

Caroline was the first woman reporter on This Day Tonight and the first woman to anchor Four Corners, and was associated with Australian Story since its inception in 1996.

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Joking with reporters, Bush described Ferraro — the first woman on a major - party presidential ticket — with these words: «I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich.»

First lady Chirlane McCray met with reporters at City Hall on Wednesday to announce a new website aimed at helping women entrepreneurs.

Small, incidental scenes contribute nifty insights and shading: the Post sends a young reporter up to New York to sneak into the Times offices to try to find out what Sheehan is up to; an elite dinner at Graham's home concludes when the men and women retire to different rooms, as if it were still 19th century England; when Sheehan's first Pentagon Papers story is set to break in the Times the next morning, it's none other than McNamara (Bruce Greenwood) himself who calls his old friend Graham to alert her.

While the film touches upon its various political and cultural issues (In addition to the give - and - take relationships between reporters and politicians, there's a lot about the overt and subtle sexism that Kat receives as the first and, at the time, only woman serving a newspaper publisher), the film plays mostly and best as a race - against - the - clock thriller of sorts, in which the obstacles are as imposing as the might of the U.S. government and as low - key as deadlines or being beaten to a story by a rival paper.

Kidman would play «a woman with a dark side» who first draws the reporter's attention to the case, and eventually strikes up a relationship with him.

Kim gets a brief, and comical, introduction to Afghanistan from the first Western woman she meets, television reporter Tanya Vanderpoel (played by the impossibly lovely Australian Margot Robbie).

Connie Chung — television reporter Ann Curry — news anchor woman, Today Show S. I. Hayakawa (1906 - 1992)-- U.S. senator, college president Dr. Feng Shan Ho — saved thousands of Austrian Jews during the Holocaust David Henry Hwang — playwright, M Butterfly Colonel Young Oak Kim — first Asian American to command a battalion in combat Ang Lee — movie director: Hulk; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973)-- movie star and martial artist Gary Locke — governor, state of Washington Norman Y. Mineta — first Asian - American member of U.S. president's cabinet Patsy Mink — Congresswoman, Hawaii Ralph Nader — consumer advocate, presidential candidate Yoko Ono — artist, musician; was married to Beatle John Lennon Dalip Singh Saund — first Asian elected to Congress (1956) Donna E. Shalala — secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services John Sununu — congressman, New Hampshire Amy Tan — author, Joy Luck Club Tiger Woods — golfer Kristi Yamaguchi — Olympic figure skater Jerry Yang — co-founder of Yahoo! Laurence Yep — author, young adult fiction (Dragonwings, Rainbow People)

After this she moved to the Minneapolis Tribune as the first woman police reporter and later as the reporter responsible for covering social change during which she wrote about «militant blacks, angry Indians, radical students, uppity women and a motley assortment of other misfits and troublemakers.»

Joanna, wife of Chuza, chief steward to King Herod, learns that the heart grows powerful when it accepts the truth of what it seeks in L.A. Times reporter Mary Rourke's first novel, Two Women of Galilee.

The committee at Florida's largest newspaper, based in St. Petersburg, acted on such a plea at its first gathering: A woman wanted the committee to delete a story from years earlier in which she spoke with a reporter while she was interviewed for a job with a «naked maids» cleaning service when she was 19 years old.

While there she co-founded the Women's Rights Law Reporter, the first U.S. law journal to focus solely on wWomen's Rights Law Reporter, the first U.S. law journal to focus solely on womenwomen.

When I was a political reporter, I first wrote about Maisy and Shannon on Jan. 6, 2012 just after the United Nations Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights signalled they were putting Canada on notice for its treatment of the then estimated 600 murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada.