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    Letters: ‘I’d Been Mommy-Tracked. I Felt Humiliated.’

    Readers share their experiences contending with the difficulties of balancing a career in TV news and a fulfilling personal life.
    Dec 16, 2018 5 minutes
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    It’s Almost Impossible to Be a Mom in Television News

    Earlier this month, Julianna Goldman described the many structural challenges facing mothers who work as TV-news correspondents. “Retaining moms in TV news matters not just for the moms, but for audiences, too,” she wrote. “The more women there are in TV news—from the top on down—the better and more diverse stories there are for the public to consume.”

    While I’m certain Ms. Goldman’s story is accurate, the headline is not. It should be changed to “It’s Almost Impossible to Be a Mom in National Television News.” Without the enormous burden of world travel, many mothers have successful careers in local television news, which is still the No. 1 source for news in the United States, according to recent Knight Foundation research.

    As a local-TV-news director for the past 30 years, my experience until I left the business

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