1. Jane Pauley first became widely known as Barbara Walters's successor on the NBC morning show Today, beginning at the age of 25, where she was a co-anchor from 1976 to 1989, at first with Tom Brokaw, and later with Bryant Gumbel; for a short while in the late 1980s she and Gumbel worked with Deborah Norville.
In 2014, Pauley appeared as an interview subject on the CBS program CBS Sunday Morning; positive audience response to this segment led to her being hired as a contributor to the show later in 2014.
Jane Pauley was elevated to the role of the program's host in 2016, succeeding Charles Osgood, making her the anchor of a regular morning news program for the first time in over 25 years and becoming her first job as the host of any television program since 2005; she continues in this role as of 2024.
Jane Pauley is married to the cartoonist Garry Trudeau, creator of the comic strip Doonesbury.
Margaret Jane Pauley was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on October 31,1950.
Jane Pauley is a fifth-generation Hoosier and the second child of Richard Grandison Pauley and Mary E Pauley.
Jane Pauley's father was a traveling salesman, and her mother was a homemaker.
Jane Pauley grew up idolizing her older sister, Ann, who has been her closest confidante since childhood.
Jane Pauley was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma where she sang with the sorority jug band, the Kappa Pickers.
Barely ten months later, Jane Pauley was chosen to replace Barbara Walters on the Today show.
Jane Pauley co-hosted the Today show from 1976 to December 29,1989; first with Tom Brokaw from 1976 to December 1981 and then with Bryant Gumbel beginning January 4,1982.
In 1983, after giving birth to twins following a very public pregnancy, Jane Pauley became a role model to working mothers.
Jane Pauley, who had been contemplating a change, hoping to spend more time with her three children, asked to settle her contract, but NBC declined.
In October 1989, after prolonged negotiations, Jane Pauley announced that, after 13 years, she would leave the Today show in December, but would soon begin working on projects at NBC.
Public reaction amid the perception that Jane Pauley was being cast aside for a younger woman was swift and consequential.
Since Jane Pauley left as co-host and Deborah Norville replaced her, the Today show had fallen from its leadership position in the competition among the three network morning shows to a distant second place, almost a full rating point behind ABC's Good Morning America.
In 1990, Jane Pauley co-hosted the 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards, alongside Candice Bergen and Jay Leno, and began to serve as substitute anchor for NBC Nightly News.
Jane Pauley co-anchored Dateline from 1992 to 2003 along with Stone Phillips.
In 2004, she returned to television as host of The Jane Pauley Show, a syndicated daytime talk show distributed by NBC Universal.
Jane Pauley campaigned publicly for President Obama in her home state of Indiana in 2008, a year when she was not affiliated with any network news organization.
In March 2009, Jane Pauley returned to the Today show as a contributor hosting a weekly segment, "Your Life Calling," sponsored by AARP, which profiled people throughout the country age 50+ who were reinventing their lives in new and different ways.
Jane Pauley has been a guest host on CBS This Morning and has filled in for Scott Pelley on the CBS Evening News.
Jane Pauley began her role as host on October 9,2016, nearly 40 years to the day since her debut on Today.
Jane Pauley married cartoonist Garry Trudeau, creator of Doonesbury, on June 14,1980.
Jane Pauley serves on the board of directors for the Children's Health Fund in New York City and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Mind Trust, an Indianapolis-based non-profit organization that supports education innovation and reform.