The participants in SHE SAYS/Women in News range from network television news anchors and syndicated columnists to newspaper editors and a major television network station president and general manager. "These women are heroes - smart, insightful, funny, highly-professional - who have succeeded in the business while remaining real people with real lives," says Joan Konner, the first woman Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. "We have attempted to show how they've transformed and expanded the agenda of news while bringing an element of humanity to news and the newsroom environment."
The following women who are representative of women's growing influence in journalism are featured in the film:
 Judy Crichton the first woman producer, writer and director in the "CBS Reports" documentary unit
Paula Madison President and General Manager, KNBC-TV, Los Angeles
Rena Pederson VP and Editorial Page Director, Dallas Morning News
Geneva Overholser Former Washington Post Writers Group Syndicated Columnist
Anna Quindlen Newsweek Columnist and former New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning Op-Ed page Columnist
Carole Simpson Anchor, "ABC World News Tonight "
Helen Thomas Dean of the White House Press Corps, Hearst Corp: formerly with UPI
Nina Totenberg NPR legal affairs correspondent
Judy Woodruff CNN prime anchor and senior correspondent
Narda Zacchino Senior Editor, San Francisco Chronicle
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