EOTO: Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas was a pioneer for women journalist all across the world. Her career spanned over sixty years, with thirty of those spent sitting front row at White House press conferences. You can not write about Helen Thomas without discussing her tough questions which no president was sparred from. That being said before getting into her later career lets take a trip down memory lane in terms of Thomas's life. Thomas first developed a love for journalism in high school finding that it helped fulfill her deeply curious nature. She took that love with her to Wayne State University where she graduated with a bachelors degree in English. While attending the University Thomas worked for the school paper which exposed her to real journalistic writing and furthered her love for the profession. In 1943 she joined the United Press and began completing regular assignments with them. In 1961 Thomas became a White House Correspondent where she spent the next 30 years sitting front row firing
