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3 days ago
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Andrea Mitchell Accepts Career Achievement Award at 85th Peabody Awards
NBC News chief Washington and chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell received a Career Achievement Award at the 85th Peabody Awards Sunday. In her remarks, Mitchell reflected on her career and the importance of having 'women at every level' in journalism — women who are 'smarter, stronger, and more fearless than we ever were – and more empowered' than ever before. Mitchell was announced as the award winner in April. The list of past honorees includes Mel Brooks, Lily Tomlin, Rita Moreno, Dan Rather, Cicely Tyson and Carol Burnett. She has been with NBC News for nearly five decades and has spent three of those serving as the netowrk's chief foreign affairs correspondent. She previously won a Peabody Award for her coverage of the Texas abortion ban and was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Television Academy at the news and documentary Emmy Awards in 2019. Mitchell's remarks in full are below: 'Winning this award this year along with my NBC colleagues at SNL clearly shows that Peabody recognizes – people need some good laughs along with their news.' 'In all seriousness, this award means the world to me – not just for what it says about my work, but for what it represents about the importance of journalism.' 'It's been a long journey for women in my profession. Consider this: my first job in a Philadelphia newsroom was as a 'copy boy.' That tells you how rare it was for a woman to be in the room at all, even doing an entry level job.' 'There weren't many women role models in television news back then. I had to fight my way in – and then fight for every promotion after that. I've been thrown out of many venues – from Philadelphia's city hall to the state house in Harrisburg, to the oval office – for asking uncomfortable questions – to the campaign trail with what was then famously called by author Timothy Crouse, 'the boys on the bus.' Covering foreign policy, I've even been physically dragged out of rooms for challenging dictators in places like Damascus and Sudan. What I learned over the years is that if you don't keep trying, you'll never get any answers.' 'Women journalists have certainly come a great distance since those early days. When I look across our newsroom now, I see women at every level – as the President and Executive Vice Presidents of NBC News – as our Washington Bureau Chief – women producers, editors, camera crews, researchers and desk assistants. And no, they are no longer called 'copy boys.'' 'I am grateful that many of these terrific journalists worked on my team and have since risen through the ranks to leadership positions. Mentoring the next generations of female journalists has been one of the great joys of my career. And I can tell you, the women journalists of today are smarter, stronger, and more fearless than we ever were – and more empowered.' 'And all of us journalists have to be fearless. It is no exaggeration to say that strong journalism, providing accurate information to the American people, is critical to the survival of our democracy. As Thomas Jefferson wrote to the continental Congress in 1787, 'were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.'' 'Whether it is warning communities about an approaching hurricane or informing them about how their elected leaders are responding to an overseas crisis, the work correspondents, producers and photographers do every day saves lives. Literally.' 'So thank you, Peabody and the University of Georgia, for respecting journalism and recognizing the importance of what we do. Thank you for honoring a former 'copy boy' who has never lost her love of chasing after the next story. Thank you to my wonderful husband for his enduring patience with my erratic work life for all these years – and my eternal gratitude to my NBC family, past and present, for believing in me. This award is for all of them.' The post Andrea Mitchell Accepts Career Achievement Award at 85th Peabody Awards appeared first on TheWrap.
Daily Mail
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Lisa Wilkinson launches astonishing public attack on 'three women' at Network Ten - as she reveals her surprise next career move
Lisa Wilkinson has sharply criticised Network Ten during a public question and answer session - with the TV star pointing the finger at 'three women' at the network who she claims share the blame for her catastrophic Logies speech. During a talk at a book festival in Taree, on the NSW mid-north-coast, on Friday night, the one-time co-host of The Project unleashed a fiery blast at her former bosses at Network Ten. Addressing a dimly lit, half-full auditorium for $25-a-head, Wilkinson was asked by one attendee why women fail to support other women in media, leading the veteran TV and magazine journalist to reply: 'I would love to know'. She then went on to slam a trio of unnamed women who 'run Channel Ten ' for allegedly failing to accept their share of the blame for her controversial 2022 Gold Logie victory speech. That speech, where she praised Brittany Higgins ' courage, led to the delay of the trial of Bruce Lehrman n for allegedly raping Ms Higgins at Parliament House - leading Wilkinson to be widely pilloried. 'Three women who run Channel Ten all read that speech,' Wilkinson said. 'When s*** hit the fan I said: "I'm on the front page of every newspaper in the country right now, I am being destroyed. 'I will take some of the blame because I said those words, but they are the words you asked me to say. 'You (the Ten women) know the legal position I am in. You approved it. I went to the legal department .... three times, including up to the afternoon of the Logies before I got on that stage. 'You've got to take some of the blame. 'I was told: "Oh we couldn't do that. That will only make it worse". 'And as the weeks went on and I said: "This is getting worse, not for you, no-one's mentioned the role that any of you have played". 'And it was three women.' Wilkinson did not refer to the three women she was speaking about by name. However, in an affidavit to the Federal Court for Lehrmann's defamation trial against Ten, Wilkinson said she believed Ten's senior legal counsel Tasha Smithies, head of PR Cat Donovan and CEO Beverley McGarvey had 'reviewed and approved' her speech. Only Ms McGarvey is employed in a major executive role running Ten. The extraordinary public blast is the first time outside court proceedings that Wilkinson has been critical of her former employer, which paid her $1.7million a year to co-host The Project - only for her to disappear off air on gardening leave for the final two years of her contract. Lisa Wilkinson reveals her next job Wilkinson started off her 'Evening With Lisa Wilkinson' event with a joke about the Logies saga. 'Before I begin, before anybody starts feeling a bit nervous, I have to confirm that I have had this speech legalled by my independent legal team, so don't anybody panic, least of all me,' she said. She then trotted out her familiar working-class-girl-from-Sydney's-west-makes-good story, portrayed her downfall from network television as hardship suffered with dignity. Asked by an audience member why she had not yet taken up a post at a public broadcaster - such as the ABC or SBS - Wilkinson answered that she was still in a form of legal limbo, despite Ten and her triumph over Lehrmann in their defamation case. 'I'm in a very interesting position at the moment. That's the most generic word I can come up with for the position I'm in,' she said. 'I don't know if you're aware that even though we've won the legal case - and the judge did declare that Bruce Lehrmann is a rapist - Bruce Lehrmann has appealed that finding. 'And so the case, the appeal, is back in court in August ... I don't know what's going to happen.' She swatted down rumours of a foray into politics, claiming her time was instead being taken up by penning a biography on a woman whose life she sees as the 'greatest Australian story that has never been told'. Wilkinson said the unnamed woman's story crossed her desk at her darkest hour in recent memory - the weekend after Channel Seven's Spotlight aired a tape of a pre-interview she had with Ms Higgins before she appeared on The Project. Channel Seven's 'disgusting' edit Wilkinson was clearly still upset by the network's portrayal of a five-hour meeting she had with Higgins and her now-husband David Sharaz. 'They completely twisted what was said, edited it in a way that was disgusting, that made it look like we were in a nightclub,' she claimed. 'It was all caught on tape because we were ordered by the courts to give them everything we had. 'And I'm an honest journalist. I'm not going to hide anything, you know, I want the truth to come out, but what Channel Seven did with it blew my mind, and for me, I couldn't see a way forward.' The mum-of-three, who lives in Cremorne on Sydney's lower north shore, said she was unable to leave her palatial home for two weeks after the story aired. Wilkinson said things got so bad her husband, Peter FitzSimons cancelled a work trip to be by her side. 'He was really worried about me, and he had good reason to be very worried about me,' she told the audience. While she remained tight-lipped on her upcoming biography, the parallels with her efforts to bring Higgins' story out of the darkness were plain to see. 'When Australia learns about this woman and realises that her story has been buried, you're all going to fall in love with her,' she said. After a life spent within the media looking out, the light has been turned back on her. Or as she put it: 'I've found myself in the unfortunate position of going from reporting the news to actually becoming the news.' It's led her to disdain the industry that made her and broke her. 'When you're at the bottom of a pile and you know the truth, and you know that there are journalists who do know the truth, will either stay silent or invent a narrative, because I was silenced legally, there's a lot of mainstream media I'm quite disgusted by,' she said. And yet, she still believes in its power to achieve positive change. 'Despite all that I have witnessed in recent times and all that I have been through, I do believe that it has all been worth it, because sunlight really is the best disinfectant, and that the only thing more frightening than speaking your truth is not speaking at all,' she said. 'And as personally, financially and professionally hard as the last few years have been for me, I will never regret putting the Brittany Higgins story to air. 'It has changed our country. 'It has exposed truths that desperately needed to be exposed, and as the toxic culture wars, the cheap headlines and the uninformed commentators have begun to fall away, I know the legacy that this story is continuing to deliver for so many women and survivors of sexual assault around this country, and I'm so proud to have been a part of that. 'That is what matters in my story.'
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Busy Philipps Calls Being Late-Night's Only Female Host The 'Dumbest Glass Ceiling Of All Time'
As Busy Philipps prepares for Season 2 of her QVC+ late-night talk show, she's opening up about taking on the male-dominated time slot. The Busy This Week host recently commented on being the only woman in late-night with her series, which returns to the free streamer on May 21 at 10pm ET, as well as the need to 'carve out our spaces.' More from Deadline Busy Philipps Says 'Dawson's Creek' Cast Is 'Very Hopeful' For Reunion Supporting James Van Der Beek E! Cancels Talk Show 'Busy Tonight'; Busy Philipps Reveals End Date & Plans To Shop Series Elsewhere In Late-Night Instagram Post 'Mean Girls' Movie Musical At Paramount Adds Busy Philipps 'I was saying earlier, this is the dumbest glass ceiling of all time, but I'm happy to be there. But also, guys, what's happening? I just feel like, the moment, we've moved past it. We've got to get more ladies in late-night,' said Philipps, adding: 'Maybe if we can get a lady in late-night, we can get a lady in the White House.' Noting she 'was bummed' after her first talk show Busy Tonight was canceled after one season on E!, Philipps also discussed finding an unexpected home for her current late-night outing. 'If you can't get a seat at the table, you gotta find a different table. And maybe it's at a place where you can also buy the table,' she joked. 'I think that we do have to be a little bit creative sometimes and carve out our spaces.' With the sophomore season of her talk show, she had the chance to interview late-night legend David Letterman. 'It was a little high pressure, I'm not gonna lie. It was a little bit intense,' Philipps admitted. 'But it was really fun, and I'm excited for people to see the show.' This season on Busy This Week, which is available on HSN+ as well, Philipps also welcomes guests Michelle Williams, Andrew Rannells, Chrissy Metz and more. Best of Deadline All The Songs In Netflix's 'Forever': From Tyler The Creator To SZA 2025 TV Series Renewals: Photo Gallery 2025 TV Cancellations: Photo Gallery
