Jane Pauley, so masterful at reinvention, reaches a new level with 'CBS Sunday Morning'
NEW YORK - Inside Jane Pauley's office at CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan hangs a large group portrait by Annie Leibovitz that ran in Life magazine in 1982. The group includes Pauley and other trailblazing newswomen such as Diane Sawyer, Lynn Sherr and the late Jessica Savitch.
Despite their distinct physical differences, identifying the journalists as individuals isn't easy, given their nearly uniform Princess Diana helmet hair and ruffled blouses.
"Somebody - it might've been Diane Sawyer - called it 'Blondes in Broadcasting,'" Pauley said recently as she pointed to a younger version of herself, sitting cross-legged near the center of the picture, with a burgundy mule dangling slightly off her left foot.
"The fact that I've got a shoe that's kind of - it looks insouciant, is that the word?" - she attempted the French pronunciation - "betrays the fact that I was, like, What am I doing here? I was the youngest of that group and
