 margaret jane pauley (born october 31, 1950), better known as jane pauley, is an american television anchor and journalist, and has been involved in news reporting since 1975. she is best known for her 13-year tenure on nbc's today program, followed by 12 years as co-host of dateline nbc, and for her public acknowledgements of her struggle with bipolar disorder. ==early life== pauley competed in debate and public speaking tournaments through the indiana high school forensic association while enrolled at warren central high school in indianapolis. pauley graduated from warren central high school in 1968. she subsequently earned a scholarship to indiana university, where she was involved in the kappa kappa gamma sorority. after college, she worked from 1972 to 1975 at wish in indianapolis and from 1975 to 1976 at wmaq in chicago while also having a house in pittsburgh where her sister went to work for westinghouse.http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tstraaaaibaj&sjid=6m0daaaaibaj&dq=today%20show%20pittsburgh&pg=6494%2c5595147 from there, she joined network television. ==career== ===today=== from 1976 to 1989 pauley was the co-host, with tom brokaw from 1976â81 and bryant gumbel from 1982â89, of nbc's today. she also anchored the sunday edition of nbc nightly news from 1980-82. following in the footsteps, both in career and in style, of the first female anchor of the show, barbara walters, she became a symbol for professional women, more specifically, female journalists. in her autobiography, "and so it goes", pauley's colleague linda ellerbee wrote, "she (pauley) is what i want to be when i grow up". nbc briefly experimented with a trio of anchors, pauley, gumbel, and chris wallace, before returning to a co-anchor format with gumbel. [[file:jane pauley tom brokaw today 1977.jpg|thumb|
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