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Jane Pauley's Bio and Posts

Jane Pauley has been one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism for more than thirty years with a television career that spanned morning, daytime and primetime. In 1972, Pauley began her journalism career as a at WISH TV in Indianapolis - her hometown. Within three years she became the first woman to anchor a weekday evening newscast in Chicago at NBC’s WMAQ-TV. Only one year later, Pauley vaulted to the top of network news as co-host of NBC’s ‘TODAY’-- at the age of 25. First teamed with Tom Brokaw and later with Bryant Gumbel, Pauley was on the scene of a dozen presidential nominating conventions. Pauley also anchored the Weekend Edition of NBC News, and appeared as a regular substitute for Tom Brokaw on Nightly News. For more than a decade, Pauley anchored DATELINE NBC with co-host, Stone Phillips. A member of the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame, Pauley has been honored with multiple Emmy Awards, the Edward R Murrow Award for outstanding achievement, the Radio and Television News Directors Association’s Paul White Award for lifetime contribution to electronic journalism, the Gracie Allen Award for outstanding achievement by an individual from American Women in Radio and Television, and the first international Matrix Award from the Association for Women in Communication. Currently she serves as Co-Chair of Freedom from Hunger’s Ambassadors Council with Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus.