Katy Tur reflects on 'binder full of women' whose looks she was told to 'choose from' to emulate if she wanted to be on camera

NBC News correspondent Katy Tur is opening up about the sexism she faced as a young woman in journalism.

In an excerpt from her new memoir Rough Draft, published by Vanity Fair, the broadcaster recalled being told by a news director at one of her first jobs that her “boobs looked too big” for TV. He then told her she needed to adjust her style.

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