# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lynn-povich
# Generated: 2026-08-13T20:18:20.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lynn-povich"
name: "Lynn Povich"
slug: "lynn-povich"
description: "Lynn Povich is an American journalist. She began her career as a secretary in the Paris Bureau of Newsweek magazine, rising to become a reporter and writer in New York in the late 1960s. In 1970, she was one of a group of women who sued the magazine for sex discrimination. Five years later, she was appointed the first woman Senior Editor in Newsweek's history. Povich is the daughter of journalist Shirley Povich and the sister of Maury Povich."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Lynn_Povich_at_New_York_Historical_Society-000_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Lynn_Povich_at_New_York_Historical_Society-000_%28cropped%29.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1943"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.58
  momentum:             0
  historical:           2.261668
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     15
  profileCompleteness:  66
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D9%BE%D9%88%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "لين پوڤيتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Povich"
    title: "Lynn Povich"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16734668"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations