By Danielle Chemtob
But that didn't stop her from becoming one of the most prominent women news anchors on television.
This week, Earthscope reporters had the opportunity to visit Jennings and observe a typical morning in the ABC Channel 7 studio in San Francisco.
The 5 p.m. newscaster begins her day by reading and watching as much news as she can before she arrives at the studio, so that she is informed for the 11 a.m. show she also hosts.
Shortly before 11 a.m., Jennings and her co-anchor prepare for the morning broadcast by reading over the script from behind the news desk.
As soon as the show begins, Jennings switches between reading from a teleprompter while her image is being shown, and reading from the script while it is not. However, she said that often breaking news will occur during the live newscast, and the script will have to change at a moment’s notice.
Jennings was inspired to become a journalist when she interviewed two prominent female television journalists for a project for her women’s studies course at San Francisco City College. Shortly after, she applied for the 20 internships, and ended up being offered one at an NBC radio station for which she worked 50 hours a week.
Jennings began her work at ABC 7/KGO TV in 1979, and 2013 marked her 25th year as the host of the 5 o’clock news.
Rather than the adopt the view of many journalists that social media is putting the news out of business, Jennings described the variety of new jobs created within the news station that dealt solely with social media. She was optimistic about the role of technology in the delivery of news, and graciously took selfies with our group to be tweeted to her followers.
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