June Carter Cash
Musical Monikers
Madonna
Justin Bieber
My Ghost Story
I Survived
Babe Ruth
Johnny Cash
Georgia O'Keefe
I Survived
1 photo
Quick Facts
- NAME: Jane Pauley
- OCCUPATION: Talk Show Host, News Anchor
- BIRTH DATE: October 31, 1950 (Age: 62)
- EDUCATION: Indiana University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Indianapolis, Indiana
- Originally: Margaret Jane Pauley
- ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio
Best Known For
Jane Pauley was a correspondent and co-anchor for NBC’s Today. She also started the weekly magazine series Real Life with Jane Pauley, later renamed Dateline.
Quiz
Think you know about Biography?
Answer questions and see how you rank against other players.
Play NowJane Pauley. (2013). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 07:58, May 24, 2013, from http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110.
Jane Pauley. [Internet]. 2013. The Biography Channel website. Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110 [Accessed 24 May 2013].
"Jane Pauley." 2013. The Biography Channel website. May 24 2013, 07:58 http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110.
"Jane Pauley," The Biography Channel website, 2013, http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110 [accessed May 24, 2013].
"Jane Pauley," The Biography Channel website, http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110 (accessed May 24, 2013).
Jane Pauley [Internet]. The Biography Channel website; 2013 [cited 2013 May 24] Available from: http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110.
Jane Pauley, http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110 (last visited May 24, 2013).
Jane Pauley. The Biography Channel website. 2013. Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/jane-pauley-9435110. Accessed May 24, 2013.
Synopsis
Jane Pauley was born on October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1976, she joined NBC’s Today show as a correspondent, and later co-anchored with Tom Brokaw and his replacement, Bryant Gumbel. After resigning from her position on Today in 1989, Pauley began a successful NBC weekly magazine series, Real Life with Jane Pauley, which was later renamed Dateline. In 2003, after 27 years of broadcasting,
Pauley announced that she was leaving NBC.
Profile
Journalist, television anchor. Born on October 31, 1950, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jane Pauley was one of the best known morning television personalities during the 1970s and 1980s. After graduating from Indiana University in 1971, she worked as a reporter for an Indianapolis television station for a few years. In 1975, Pauley served briefly a reporter and a co-anchor in Chicago before leaving in 1976 to join NBC??s Today as a correspondent. She later became co-anchor with Tom Brokaw and his replacement Bryant Gumbel. In addition to her duties on Today, Pauley served as a correspondent and writer for NBC News for a time.
Resigning after a younger female host was added in 1989, Pauley began a successful NBC weekly magazine series, Real Life with Jane Pauley, later renamed Dateline. In 1995, her work was recognized with an Emmy and an American Women in Radio and Television Award. Pauley also substituted for Tom Brokaw on the NBC Nightly News. In 2003, after 27 years of broadcasting, Pauley announced she was leaving NBC in June. A few months later, she signed a deal with the network to host her own daytime talk show, which premiered in the fall of 2004 and was canceled eight months later due to poor ratings.
In addition to her television career, Pauley has authored a book about her personal struggle with bipolar disorder, Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue (2004). Two years later, she became involved in a legal battle with The New York Times. In Pauley??s lawsuit, she claimed that she was misled about the nature of a 2005 interview she did. She believed that she was contributing to a news article within a special advertising supplement, not to the advertisement itself.
Pauley lives in New York City with her husband, cartoonist Garry Trudeau. They have three children, twins Rachel and Ross and Thomas.
© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
profile name: Jane Pauley profile occupation:
Your Connections
Sign in with Facebook to see how you and your friends are connected to famous icons.
Profile Connections
Included In These Groups
-
Female Talk Show Hosts
View groupTaking on topics of politics, entertainment, women's issues and more, female talk show hosts have proven to be every bit as engaging, intelligent, and funny as their male counterparts. Oprah Winfrey's 25-year-reign as the queen of talk is unparalleled, but many other female talk show hosts have come into their own as well, including Tyra Banks, Ellen DeGeneres, Sally Jessy Raphael and Kelly Ripa.
Visit Biography.com's Women's History group to explore more biographies, photos and videos of some the world's most fascinating women.
Female Talk Show Hosts 26 people in this group
-
Girl Scouts
View groupDid you know that since 1912, nearly 50 million girls in the United States have joined the Girl Scouts? Girl Scouts helped an amazingly diverse array of famous women develop a strong foundation of courage, confidence and character. It's no surprise then that quite a few famous women spent time in the sash. Celebrities who got their start selling cookies and earning merit badges include Wonder Woman star Lynda Carter and actress/writer Carrie Fisher; former first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Nancy Reagan; Olympic skaters Bonnie Blair and Peggy Fleming; astronaut Sally Ride; and iconic women's rights activist Gloria Steinem. Browse our collection of inspiring famous Girl Scouts who have certainly earned merit badges in their fields.
Girl Scouts 45 people in this group
-
Famous Scorpios 506 people in this group
