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Joan Ganz Cooney on executive Paul Firstenberg's push to sell the company's investments in cable 03:34
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Person: Paul Firstenberg
Joan Ganz Cooney on the end of Paul Firstenberg's term at the Children's Television Workshop 01:14
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Person: Paul Firstenberg
Joan Ganz Cooney on Jim Henson's request to the run licensing of the Sesame Street Muppets 00:47
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Person: Jim Henson
Joan Ganz Cooney on Mike Dann's early assistance with The Children's Television Workshop 06:40
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Person: Michael Dann
On the saving grace of the company: the pop culture phenomenon, Talking Big Bird toy - a sample of what was to come with the Tickle Me Elmo mania 01:00
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney
Joan Ganz Cooney on subsidizing the program, Best of Families 01:22
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Show: Best of Families, The
Joan Ganz Cooney on Mike Dann helping her select executive producers from Captain Kangaroo 02:26
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Show: Captain Kangaroo
Joan Ganz Cooney on The Children's Television Workshop's investments in cable systems 02:14
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Topic: Technological Innovation
Joan Ganz Cooney on the pop culture phenomenon of the Talking Big Bird toy - a sample of what was to come with the Tickle Me Elmo mania 01:00
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Topic: Pop Culture
Joan Ganz Cooney on the online services of The Children's Television Workshop and the digital channel in the works with Nickelodeon 02:58
Interview: Joan Ganz Cooney | Topic: Technological Innovation
On her background; on how debates at home may have had an influence on her becoming a journalist; on abandoning a medical career and having an epiphany about becoming a journalist; on her first job in television, at NBC, on the 1968 election research team 59:27
Interview: Lesley Stahl
On her year at NBC's London bureau and leaving to work for CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston; on gaining experience at WHDH; on getting hired at CBS' Washington D.C. news bureau in the early 1970s and how affirmative action played a part in her hiring; on being told to re-do an on-camera piece without smiling (and it having to do with exuding authority as a woman); on being assigned the "unimportant" Watergate break-in story as a rookie reporter and what a break it was for her career; on her on-camera look 50:33
Interview: Lesley Stahl
On tenacity in journalism; on her "apprenticeship" at CBS as a reporter in Washington D.C.; on being positioned at Gerald Ford's house during Nixon's resignation; on encountering sexism within news crews; on coverage of Watergate by the media and on Watergate burglary trial judge John Sirica's importance in the "assault" on President Nixon; on her personal and professional life following the Watergate story and her co-anchoring of the morning news from Washington D.C. 40:29
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on her year at NBC News' London bureau and leaving to work for CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston (on advice from NBC News President Richard C. Wald) 01:16
Interview: Lesley Stahl | Person: Richard C. Wald
Lesley Stahl on tenacity in journalism 00:43
Interview: Lesley Stahl | Profession: Journalists & News Producers
Lesley Stahl on consciously trying to convey authority as a reporter 01:07
Interview: Lesley Stahl | Profession: Journalists & News Producers
Lesley Stahl on how debates at home may have had an influence on her becoming a journalist 00:43
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on abandoning a medical career and having an epiphany about becoming a journalist 01:19
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on what appealed to her about journalism as a potential profession, when she worked as a speechwriter for New York mayor John Lindsay 01:05
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on her first job in television, at NBC, on the 1968 election research team 00:47
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on the set-up at NBC, when she worked on the 1968 election research team 01:16
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on the jobs women had at NBC News, when she started in 1967 00:24
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on her year at NBC News' London bureau and leaving to work for CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston (on advice from NBC News President Richard C. Wald) 01:16
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on gaining experience at CBS affiliate WHDH in Boston after an unproductive year in NBC News' London bureau 02:08
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on getting hired at CBS' Washington D.C. news bureau, and how affirmative action played a part in her hiring 01:21
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on being told to re-do an on-camera piece without smiling (to exude more authority) while a correspondent for CBS in Washington 00:51
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on being assigned the "unimportant" Watergate break-in story as a rookie reporter and what a break it was for her career 01:47
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on her "apprenticeship" at CBS as a reporter in Washington D.C. 01:38
Interview: Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl on encountering sexism within news crews when she was a rookie reporter for CBS in Washington D.C. in the 1970s 01:47
Interview: Lesley Stahl