A biography for Jessica Savitchhasn’t been written yet.
“The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.”
“Some news managers have been slow to grasp that good television news is always substance over form.”
“Never refuse an assignment except when there is a conflict of interest, a potential of danger to you or your family, or you hold a strongly biased attitude about the subject under focus.”
“Many senators have developed a canny sense of what will play best for the audience.”
“Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.”
“Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.”
“The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.”
“I don't exactly know what it means to be ready. A cake when the oven timer goes off? Am I fully baked, or only half-baked?”
“To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.”
“The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.”
“I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.”
“You can easily die racing to cover a bank robbery as you can in a war zone.”
“I worked half my life to be an overnight success, and still it took me by surprise.”
“When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.”
“I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.”
“Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.”
“My current goal is to place a moratorium on goals.”
“Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.”
“The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.”