After four years writing The CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite," a period which spanned the Watergate scandal and the fall of Saigon, Carol Joynt took a year off to get off the grid and explore. She traveled across the U.S., and France, and for 7 months lived in the West Indies, crewing as deckhand on"Spartan", a classic Herreshoff New York 50 sailing yacht. When the year was up, Joynt returned to New York, and then Washington, and network news and a succession of positions, which included producing roles at NBC News, CBS News Nightwatch, USA Today the TV Show, This Week with David Brinkley, Nightline, Larry King Live, John Hockenberry, and Hardball with Chris Matthews. For these broadcasts she focused on breaking news and subjects ranging from global politics and the world's leaders to the latest successes or scandals involving the talented, the royal, the celebrated and the infamous.
