THAT MOMENT WHEN - Lesley Stahl

"Pioneering journalist Lesley Stahl on breaking into a boys’ club" PBS NewsHour 6/26/2019

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SUMMARY:  Lesley Stahl is an Emmy-winning journalist who currently reports for the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”  During her long career, she has served as a White House correspondent and anchor of CBS’ “Face the Nation.”  But she didn't have an easy start in the industry.  For the NewsHour’s “That Moment When,” Stahl tells Steve Goldbloom what it was like to be the only woman in a 1970s Boston newsroom.

OSCARS - 'Free Solo'

"The creators of ‘Free Solo’ on the daily ‘burden’ of their risky project" PBS NewsHour 3/5/2019

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SUMMARY:  Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi created the film “Free Solo,” which won the award for best documentary at the Oscars.  The film chronicles free climber Alex Honnold, who scales without ropes in Yosemite National Park.  Chin and Vasarhelyi discuss what it was like to work on a project where every day of filming occurred on the brink of death.