Jessica Savitch

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

— Jessica Savitch

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

— Jessica Savitch

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

— Jessica Savitch

My goal was to be a network correspondent by the time I was 30.

— Jessica Savitch

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

— Jessica Savitch

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.

— Jessica Savitch

By far my most perilous assignment was covering a tank car explosion.

— Jessica Savitch

Our free enterprise system of disseminating information is collectively referred to as The Media. But there is no collective.

— Jessica Savitch

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

— Jessica Savitch

In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.

— Jessica Savitch

In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a…

— Jessica Savitch

Television is intensely personal.

— Jessica Savitch

Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was…

— Jessica Savitch

When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show.

— Jessica Savitch

Being a novelty had its advantages.

— Jessica Savitch

The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news.

— Jessica Savitch

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received.

— Jessica Savitch

Although I was entirely relaxed on camera, if I had to stand up and say something to an assembled group of people,…

— Jessica Savitch

The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if…

— Jessica Savitch

I hadn't realized until I covered the police beat just how seedy crime is.

— Jessica Savitch

Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians.

— Jessica Savitch

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

— Jessica Savitch

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

— Jessica Savitch

I very much wanted to be accepted by my peers, to be considered a serious journalist.

— Jessica Savitch

In real life, events seem much less dramatic.

— Jessica Savitch