Career
Doyle became one of the first women hired in the United States as a major television sports anchor and reporter in 1978. The Detroit Free Press reported in May 2006 about Doyle, "In places that reeked of testosterone, Anne Doyle spent years breaking barriers for women and letting in fresh air. From the locker room to the boardroom, she was a woman working and winning in a man"s world." She tried countless times to enter into professional sports locker rooms to report but was continuously denied.
Foreign her pioneering work in the 1970s and early 80"s, Doyle was named to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame (2207) and listed in the "Who"s Who of American Women in the South" (1987).
Doyle would cover the NFL, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, MLB, National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing, Formula One and the Big Ten and would report on the World Series, Super Bowl, and a number of Rose Bowls. Prior to covering sports, Doyle served as a radio and television news reporter and anchor in Los Angeles, Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Lansing, Michigan.
She was also a news editor for United Press International where she worked in the Atlanta bureau along with writing for the Detroit Free Press. She is the daughter of Detroit sports broadcaster Vince Doyle.
