{"id":311888,"date":"2026-03-04T02:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:53:08","slug":"joan-lunden-talks-new-book-life-beyond-the-script-with-former-gma-colleague-bill-ritter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311888\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan Lunden talks new book, Life Beyond the Script, with former GMA colleague Bill Ritter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK &#8212; She&#8217;s been a household name for Americans for more than 40 years, but Joan Lunden began her career in New York at Channel 7 Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Now, she&#8217;s releasing her 11th book, &#8220;Joan: Life Beyond the Script,&#8221; which is her most personal to date.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/18673059_030326-wabc-joan-book-img.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In it, she turns the lens on herself, giving readers a look at her remarkable life; from breaking barriers for working moms while she was on air at &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; to her advocacy in our nation&#8217;s capitol for paid family leave, to her public battle against breast cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">She sat down with our own Bill Ritter, her longtime co-worker, to talk all about it, including her advice for young people starting their careers in the news business and taking a trip down memory lane.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Ritter has the details on Joan Lunden&#8217;s latest book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If you want to see Joan as she speaks about her life and her new book, she&#8217;s speaking at The Temple Emanu-el&#8217;s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/streicker.nyc\/events\/joan-lunden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Streicker Cultural Center<\/a> in New York City on March 10. Registration is free.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Disney is the parent company of this station.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; She&#8217;s been a household name for Americans for more than 40 years, but Joan Lunden&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[169639,156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-311888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-169639","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}