Marlo Thomas was honored with Lifetime Achievement Award. Presenters and attendees included Atsuko Okatsuka, Jodi Balfour, Bishop Briggs, Rachel Lindsay, Keltie Knight, Rose McIver, Kerri Kasem, Ellen K and Harriet Dyer. Pictured: Becky Brooks, Marlo Thomas and Annie Howell (Getty for the Alliance for Women in Media Foundation)
This Saturday-morning news show is supposed to look like the ones that precede it Monday through Friday. It doesn’t. “What I really want to do is continue down the path of identifying this show as a unique broadcast that is unlike anything else at CBS News,’ says Executive Producer Brian Applegate.
A Case For The Positive Power Of TV News
Sometimes, a TV news report can move a viewer to make a difference. Here’s a story about how a feature from New York was seen by a viewer in Washington who got a shipment of musical instruments in Cleveland sent to a teacher who won the Grammy Award for Music Educator of the Year.