Jane Pauley
JournalistUnited States
Jane Pauley is an American broadcast journalist whose television career has spanned more than five decades. She spent 13 years as co-host of NBC’s Today, later co-anchored Dateline NBC, and since 2016 has served as anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning. She has received numerous journalism awards, including multiple Emmys and a 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. [1]
Career and work
Pauley began her national television career in 1976 when she joined NBC’s Today as co-host, a role she held for 13 years. She later co-anchored Dateline NBC and hosted several other NBC programs, including Real Life with Jane Pauley and The Jane Pauley Show. [1]
In 2016, she became anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, succeeding Charles Osgood. Over the course of her career, Pauley has interviewed major political, cultural and entertainment figures and has received multiple Emmy Awards, a Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and a 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. [1]
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CBS NewsJane Pauley Provides career information including Pauley’s years at Today and Dateline NBC, her role as anchor of CBS News Sunday Morning, major awards, books and mental-health advocacy.
Book or book pageTIME10 Questions for Jane Pauley A first-person interview covering Pauley’s 2001 bipolar diagnosis, treatment with steroids and an antidepressant before diagnosis, and her understanding of how those medications affected an underlying vulnerability to bipolar disorder.
InterviewCNN, 2005Larry King Live: Panel Discusses Depression Contains Pauley’s account of depression, hypomania, psychiatric hospitalization and the fact that she continued working while experiencing significant symptoms.
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CBS NewsJane Pauley says doctor offered her a “cover story” to hide bipolar diagnosis Supports Pauley’s 2001 diagnosis, three-week psychiatric hospitalization, decision to disclose the illness publicly and later mental-health advocacy.
The Diane Rehm Show, 2014Jane Pauley: “Your Life Calling” A detailed first-person discussion of Pauley’s hypomania, treatment, lack of recurrence, medication adherence, sleep and stress management, and the role mental-health advocacy has played in her life.
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Recommended books and other resources about Jane Pauley and their experiences.
- Skywriting: A Life Out of the BlueBook · Jane Pauley
Pauley’s memoir about her life and television career, including her unexpected bipolar diagnosis, hypomania, hospitalization and efforts to understand what had happened.
- Jane Pauley says doctor offered her a “cover story” to hide bipolar diagnosisVideo interview · CBS News
A video interview in which Pauley discusses her diagnosis, psychiatric hospitalization, decision to disclose it publicly and why she rejected the opportunity to hide it.
- Take One Step: Caring for Depression, with Jane PauleyTelevision program · PBS
A mental-health program hosted by Pauley in which she discusses her own bipolar diagnosis while speaking with experts about depression, vulnerability and treatment.
- Jane Pauley on recognizing depressionPersonal reflection · CBS Sunday Morning, 2020
A short personal reflection in which Pauley looks back on the depression that preceded her bipolar diagnosis and encourages more open discussion of mental health.