Jane Pauley has been one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism for more than thirty years with a television career that spanned morning, daytime and primetime.

In 1972, Pauley began her journalism career as a ‘temporary, probationary employee for 90 days’ at WISH TV in Indianapolis - her hometown, but within three years became the first woman to anchor a weekday evening newscast in Chicago at NBC’s WMAQ-TV. Only one year later, Pauley vaulted to the top of network news as co-host of NBC’s ‘TODAY’ -- at the age of 25.