News Girls Don't Cry

Today the Host of ORA TV’s Newsbreaker and calling Larry King, her boss, Melissa McCarty worked her way up through the trenches of television news for more than a decade. But she was also running away from her past, one of growing up in the roughest of neighborhoods, watching so many she knew including her brother—succumb to drugs, gangs, and violence. It was a past that forced her to be tough and streetwise, traits that in her career as a popular television newscaster, would end up working against her.

Every tragic story she covered, every death she reported on the evening news, were grim reminders of where she’d been. But the practiced and restrained emotion given to the camera became her protective armor even in her private life where she was unable to exude personal warmth and let her guard down—a demeanor that became so much a part of her she failed to realize that from bosses to boyfriends, from the boardroom to the bedroom, it had stopped protecting her and turned into a weapon that damaged both her personal and professional relationships.

In News Girls Don’t Cry, McCarty confronts the memory-demons of her past, exploring how they hardened her and kept her from becoming loving and empathic in love and life—and how she turned it all around. An inspiring story of overcoming adversity, second chances, and becoming loving and authentic.