Part one of term paper
It is May 1971, and Jessica Savitch, a twenty-three-year-old, ambitious, blond, is on her way to Houston, Texas. She has been hired to be a reporter for KHOU T.V., a CBS affiliate. On her first day, she tags along with reporter Judd McIlvain and announces her plans for the future. "My plans are to be a network anchor by the time I'm thirt ...

Part two of term paper
... Ron soon becomes the most important man in her life. "It was the most intense relationship I was ever around," says Kershaw's friend, journalist Dick Williams. "For both Ron and Jessica, it would be more than love, more than hate, but an obsession," (Nash, 101). One day, Jessica shows up at work badly bruised. She and Ron have been fighting, and everyone knows it. They break up and make up repeatedly, a cycle that continues throughout her life. Jessica Savitch gets a career boost when she ...