Caryn Brooks
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Caryn Brooks has done just about everything in a television newsroom: reporter, editor, executive producer, managing editor, and news director. In more than 25 years on the job, she has witnessed historic events and witnessed historic changes in an industry that is evolving every day. Most recently as executive producer for WBBM-TV, CBS in Chicago, she oversaw reporters, photographers, and editors for the station’s daily 10pm, 6pm and 5pm newscasts. Prior to that, she worked as executive producer for WGN-TV’s morning news. Caryn has a bachelor’s degree from Smith College and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. She has won five Emmy awards for television coverage, four of them for breaking news. She lives in River Forest, IL and is the mother of three adult sons. caryn.brooks@yahoo.com

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Taking Television at Its Word: Vagina Schmagina

(28) Comments | Posted June 20, 2012 | 5:10 PM

Republican lawmakers in Michigan don't watch enough television. The ruckus about the use of the word vagina in the statehouse there proves it.

The brouhaha over vagina started when a female lawmaker in Michigan said she was barred from speaking in the statehouse after she uttered the v-word when...

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Apple Selling Computerized Companionship: Are You Buying It?

(3) Comments | Posted June 13, 2012 | 11:03 AM

She's not a real friend. I'm just saying.

Of course with the new Apple ads for iPhone 4S, the folks at Apple are selling much more than a phone. The latest television ad with John Malkovich is selling companionship. Call it friendship in a computer chip and her name...

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Live and Let Dye: When Will TV's Women Show Their True Colors?

(36) Comments | Posted April 7, 2012 | 6:42 PM

NBC news anchor Matt Lauer will do something most women on television try desperately not to do. He will age before our eyes.

Of course there are women of a certain age in strong powerful roles on television -- Diane Sawyer, Barbara Walters and Katie Couric to name a...

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Single Moms on TV: Prostitutes and Drug Dealers?

(24) Comments | Posted April 6, 2012 | 5:16 PM

When I turned on the television earlier this week I thought I'd been transported back to 1950. What spurred the time warp was an ad for a new Lifetime show, The Client List. It stars Jennifer Love Hewitt as a single mother with two young children. She works at...

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