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Jessica Beth Savitch (February 1, 1947 – October 23, 1983) was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader ...
Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story is a 1995 American biographical drama television film directed by Peter Werner and written by Linda Bergman. It stars Sela Ward as a television journalist Jessica Savitch. The film premiered on Lifetime on September 4, 1995.
Gwenda Linda Blair (born 1943) is an American author and journalist known for her biographies of Jessica Savitch, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the family of Donald Trump. She is an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Blair was born in Washington, D.C., to parents Newell and Greta (Flintermann) Blair.
Jessica Savitch: Host Frontline: 25 1983-10-23 Drowned in a car accident 1 Replaced during the second season by Judy Woodruff. Michael Conrad: Phil Esterhaus: Hill Street Blues: 1983-11-22 Urethral cancer: 4 Character killed off while having sex with Grace Gardner.
Jessica Savitch (1946–), NBC News [155] Michael S. Schmidt (1983–), correspondent for The New York Times [156] Douglas Schoen (1953–), political analyst and commentator for Fox News and Newsmax TV [157] Daniel Schorr (1916–2010), journalist who covered the world for more than 60 years, last as a senior news analyst for NPR [158]
The screenplay began as an adaptation of Golden Girl: The Story of Jessica Savitch, a 1988 book by Alanna Nash that recounted the troubled life of American news anchor Jessica Savitch. The finished picture, however, was greatly altered by commercial decisions on the part of the producers, and bore little resemblance to Savitch's biography.
During a live NBC news update, anchor Jessica Savitch appears incoherent, slurring her speech, deviating from her copy and ad-libbing her report. Savitch, dogged by rumors of drug abuse and instability, still has her contract renewed, but drowns in a car accident three weeks later. [13] October 6
TV journalist Jessica Savitch began her career as a teen DJ on a show called Teen Talk in 1962. [5] She used "Wild Weekend" as a theme song. She called herself "Wonda" for a short time. The station also launched the career of Tom Lamaine, long-time radio personality at WIP in Philadelphia and then at KYW-TV. Former logo