Diane Sawyer
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Lila Diana Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America with Robin Roberts. She is best known as Diane Sawyer.
Sawyer was born and raised in Glasgow, Kentucky, and received her English degree at Wellesley College in 1967. She served as a reporter for WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky until 1970, then was hired by White House press secretary Ron Ziegler to serve in the administration of President Richard Nixon through his resignation in 1974, working on the transition team between Nixon and Gerald Ford in 1975.
In 1978, she became a political correspondent for CBS, becoming a co-anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1981. In 1984, she became a correspondent for 60 Minutes, where she stayed for five years. In 1989, she moved to ABC to co-anchor Primetime Live with Sam Donaldson. In 1999, Sawyer became the co-anchor of Good Morning America along with Charles Gibson.
World News Tonight
On May 23, 2006 it was announced that Charlie Gibson would assume the anchor chair for World News Tonight, scotching the "Sawyer WNT hosting" rumors for good. Charles Gibson departed from "GMA" on June 28, 2006. It also rumored that Sawyer will leave the show when her contract ends in 2007.
Cultural references
- In the comic strip Bloom County, a central character, Opus the penguin, had a long-time crush on Diane Sawyer.
- In the movie Drop Dead Gorgeous, Kirsten Dunst's character repeatedly says that she aspires to win a beauty pageant and become a news anchor, "just like Diane Sawyer."
- In the movie Something's Gotta Give Jack Nicholson's character was at one time in his past engaged to Diane Sawyer.
- In the movie Little Black Book Brittany Murphy's character has the career goal of working for Diane Sawyer, and ended up achieving the goal at the end of the movie.
- Diane was often mentioned as a rival of fictional news-magazine anchor Murphy Brown on the popular sitcom of the same name.
Trivia
- Was at one time considered a strong suspect for being "Deep Throat" during the Watergate scandal. She was one of six people to request and receive a public denial from Bob Woodward.
- Has been married to director Mike Nichols since April 29, 1988.
| Preceded by: Kevin Newman and Lisa McRee | Good Morning America co-anchor 1999–present with Charles Gibson (from January 25, 1999 to June 28, 2006), and Robin Roberts starting in 2005 | Followed by: Incumbent |
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