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Jane Pauley got the message about the power of news early on in life. Born Margaret Jane Pauley in 1950, the youngest of two daughters, she grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana, where her mother was a church organist and her father worked in food distribution.
At home, newspapers were a constant. “When major events happened in the world, my parents somehow got a notice in the mail that they were personally going to be affected,” she said in a sit-down with “The Interviews” series. Pauley said her father saved all the newspapers and climbed into bed to read them, with the papers layered over the bedspread.
“There was always news in the house,” Pauley said.
The newspapers, the radio and broadcast news — all of them carried an implicit message: The news mattered. Even now, Pauley said she looks forward to the newspaper every morning. She calls it her personal ritual.
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