num_pages: 208
description: News to Me is an extraordinary firsthand account of fifty years of South Texas journalism. Born in Austin in 1918, cum laude graduate of the University of Texas at age twenty, Juliet Wenger helped shape how the news was covered in the infant days of radio and television, when women in her professionany professionwere rare. The colorful characters in this chronicle cross all lines of class, race, notoriety, and prosperity. Notables include Walter Cronkite, Fred Gibson, Bob McCracken, President Lyndon Johnson, Bill Walraven, Oscar Wyatt, J. Frank Dobie, Roy Bedichek, Vann M. Kennedy, Nancy Heard, and Abe Katz. In her career as reporter, Juliet Knight Wenger worked for at least eight different newspapers, including the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and the Beeville Bee-Picayune. She was news director for radio station KSIX and its television counterpart, KZTV. She lives in Rockport, Texas, with her husband, Chris Wenger, and writes a column for the Ingleside Index and the Aransas Pass Progress.
language: English
title: News to Me: Remembrances of a Texas Newswoman
titlecomplete: News to Me: Remembrances of a Texas Newswoman
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publisher: Eakin Pr