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Jessica Savitch
Jessica Beth Savitch is an American presenter and TV reporter, best known as the NBC Nightly News weekend host and NBC News daily update host in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Savitch was one of the first women to host her own online evening news program, following in the footsteps of Marlene Sanders of ABC News and Catherine Mackin of NBC News. She also hosted PBS Frontline's public affairs documentary from her debut in January 1983 until she died in an auto accident later that year. Shortly before her death in October 1983, Savitch was also known through the live broadcast of a brief NBC News update in which her birth was irregular and she appeared to be affected by drugs or alcohol. The incident made public speculation that she abused drugs. She died three weeks later from drowning when a car she was a passenger accidentally rolled down the canal in heavy rain.
BornJessica Beth Savitch, February 1, 1947, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
DiedOctober 23, 1983, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Cause of deathAsphyxiation by drowning
NationalityAmerican
EducationIthaca College
OccupationTelevision journalist
Years active1968–1983
Spouse(s)Melvin "Mel" Korn (1980–1981, divorced), Dr. Donald Payne (March 1981 – August 2, 1981, his death)

About Jessica Savitch

Journalist Jessica Savitch was born in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, United States on February 1, 1947. She dies at the age of 36, on October 23, 1983.

She is best known for anchoring NBC Nightly News' weekend version in New York and hosting the PBS news show Frontline. She is also the first female anchor of a nationally broadcast weekend news program.

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Jessica Savitch before becoming famous

Jessica Savitch was born in the Zodiac sign Aquarius (The Water-Bearer), and 1947 is also the year of Pig (豬) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She worked for Houston's KHOU-TV channel and New York's WCBS-AM radio station after graduating from Ithaca College in New York.

Achievement of Jessica Savitch

She died tragically in her mid-thirties in a single-vehicle car accident that also claimed the life of New York Post executive Martin Fischbein.

Jessica Savitch's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

She grew up in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the daughter of Florence Goldberger and David Savitch. Mel Korn, who she married briefly in the early 1980s, was followed by Donald Payne.

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In the Lifetime film Almost Golden: The Journalist Jessica Savitch Story, TV Actress Sela Ward played her.

Jessica Savitch Income & Net worth

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Latest information about Jessica Savitch updated on March 11 2023.