Christine Craft Rights Act of 1964) and her media experiences. Her story was featured in an exhibit at the Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism located in Washington, D.C. Christine Craft Christine Ann Craft (born 1944) is an attorney, radio talk show host and former television news anchor. She became known in the broadcast industry in the 1980s for her age and sexual discrimination lawsuit against a television station that had demoted her from news anchor to reporter. Craft was born in 1944 in San Marino, California. After graduating from college with a degree in English in 1966, she spent
Women in journalism in professional journalism, and popular representations of the "intrepid girl reporter" became popular in 20th-century films and literature, such as in "His Girl Friday". Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by "Time" magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. She is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism." After the War she stood