Deborah James has died aged just 40

Everyone starts somewhere. Here are Barbara Walters, Jane Pauley, Deborah Norville, Lisa Ling, Connie Chung, Soledad O’Brien, Gayle King, Cynthia McFadden, Katie Couric, Tamoryn Hall, Christiane Amanpour, Joy Reid, Deborah Roberts, Norah O’Donnell, Erin Burnett, Margaret Brennan, Clarissa Ward, and Amna Nawaz early in their legendary broadcast careers. Read more about how far they’ve come and all they’ve learned since at the link in bio. | New York Magazine

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