Editing Nora Ephron (section)

=== 1966–1979: Work as a journalist ===
After graduating from Wellesley, Ephron worked briefly as an intern in the [[White House]] of President [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/nora-ephron-was-a-washington-intern-before-she-was-a-hollywood-hit/|title=Nora Ephron: From D.C. Intern to Hollywood Hit|website=ABC News|access-date=November 28, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161128133351/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/nora-ephron-was-a-washington-intern-before-she-was-a-hollywood-hit/|archive-date=November 28, 2016}}</ref> She also applied to be a writer at ''Newsweek''. After she was told they did not hire women writers, she accepted a position as a mail girl.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/28/opinion/nora-ephron-the-best-mailgirl-ever.html|title=Nora Ephron, the Best Mailgirl Ever|last=Collins|first=Gail|date=June 27, 2012|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331|access-date=November 26, 2016}}</ref>

After eventually quitting ''Newsweek'' because she was not allowed to write, Ephron participated in a class action lawsuit against the magazine for sexual discrimination, described in the book ''[[The Good Girls Revolt|The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued Their Bosses and Changed the Workplace]]'' by Lynn Povich, and both the lawsuit and Ephron's role were fictionalized in a 2016 Amazon series by the similar main title ''[[Good Girls Revolt]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiewire.com/2016/10/good-girls-revolt-amazon-1201741767/|title='Good Girls Revolt': The Women Who Fought for Equality in the Newsroom {{!}} IndieWire|last=Nguyen|first=Hanh|website=www.indiewire.com|date=October 31, 2016|access-date=November 26, 2016}}</ref>

After a satire in ''[[Monocle (satirical magazine)|Monocle]]'' she wrote lampooning the ''New York Post'' caught the editor's eye, Ephron accepted a job at the ''Post'', where she worked as a reporter for five years.<ref name="guardian2007"/> In 1966, she broke the news in the ''Post'' that [[Bob Dylan]] had married [[Sara Lownds]] in a private ceremony.<ref name="dylan">{{cite news
 | title = No Direction Home
 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=_nAHO6LlEVMC&q=dylan+ephron+marriage&pg=PA325|publisher=Da Capo Press
 | year = 1986
 |isbn = 9780306812873| access-date =January 7, 2009
}}</ref> After becoming a successful writer, she wrote a column on women's issues for ''Esquire''.<ref name="timesneck"/> In this position, Ephron made a name for herself by writing "[[A Few Words About Breasts]]", a humorous essay about body image that "established her as the enfant terrible of the New Journalism".<ref>Kennedy, Lettie. "Nora Ephron: The Last Interview and Other Conversations," ''The Observer'' (London) January 17, 2016.</ref> While at ''Esquire'', she took on subjects as wide-ranging as [[Dorothy Schiff]], her former boss and owner of the ''Post''; [[Betty Friedan]], whom she chastised for pursuing a feud with [[Gloria Steinem]]; and her alma mater Wellesley, which she said had turned out "a generation of docile and unadventurous women".<ref name="guardian2007"/> A 1968 send-up of ''[[Women's Wear Daily]]'' that she wrote for ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'' resulted in threats of a lawsuit from ''WWD.''<ref name="guardian2007"/>

Ephron rewrote a script for ''[[All the President's Men (film)|All the President's Men]]'' in the mid-1970s, along with her then husband, investigative journalist [[Carl Bernstein]]. While the script was not used, it was seen by someone who offered Ephron her first screenwriting job, for a television movie,<ref name="guardian2007"/> which began her screenwriting career.<ref>{{cite web|title= Nora Ephron Biography and Interview |website=achievement.org|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=  https://www.achievement.org/achiever/nora-ephron/#interview}}</ref>