Though she studied psychology in college, King fell in “love, love, love” with television news while working as a production assistant at a local CBS station and then committed to what would become a five-decade career in journalism. After stints producing, reporting for, and hosting local programs, she took to the national stage with her short-lived The Gayle King Show but soon found another home at the media company of her longtime friend Oprah Winfrey. Since 2012, she has anchored CBS Mornings, through changes in cohosts and, most recently, a management shake-up.