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Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945; age 65) is the current anchor of ABC News ' flagship program, ABC World News . Previously, Sawyer had been co-anchor of ABC News's morning news program , Good Morning America (GMA).

Early life and education

Born in Glasgow, Kentucky , Diane Sawyer is the daughter of Jean W. Sawyer an elementary school teacher and Erbon Powers "Tom" Sawyer, a judge. Soon after her birth, her family moved to Louisville , Kentucky, where her father rose to local prominence as a Jefferson County Judge/Executive when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville's Interstate 64 in 1969. E. P. "Tom" Sawyer State Park, located in the area of Louisville, is named in his honor.

Sawyer attended Seneca High School in the America's Junior Miss " scholarship pageant as a representative from the State of Kentucky.

During the period from 1962 1965, Sawyer was "America's Junior Miss" touring the country to promote the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair.

In 1967, she received a bachelor of arts degree with a major in English from Massachusetts . There, she was a member of the Wellesley College Blue Notes , an law school at the before turning to journalism.

Career

Sawyer began her professional career in Republican Party politics. In 1970, Ford transition team in 1974 1975, after which she decamped with Nixon to California and helped him write his memoirs , published in 1978. She also helped prepare Nixon for his famous set of television interviews with journalist David Frost in 1977.

Years later, Sawyer would be suspected of being Deep Throat , the source of leaks of classified information to journalist Bob Woodward during the Baruch Korff a longtime Nixon confidant and defender known as "Nixon's rabbi" said on his deathbed that he believed Sawyer was Deep Throat. Sawyer laughed it off, and she was one of six people to request and receive a public denial from Woodward.

In 1978, Sawyer joined CBS News as a political correspondent and became a co-anchor , with Bill Kurtis , of the CBS Morning News in 1981. In 1984, she became a correspondent for 60 Minutes , a CBS News investigative television newsmagazine ; she remained for five years.

In 1989, she moved to ABC News to co-anchor newsmagazine Sam Donaldson . From 1998 to 2000, she would become a co-anchor for ABC's 20/20 , also a newsmagazine, co-anchoring on Wednesdays with Donaldson and on Sundays with Barbara Walters .

In 1999, Sawyer returned to morning news (GMA), under a lucrative contract , as the co-anchor of GMA with Charles Gibson . The assignment was putatively temporary, but her success in the position, measured by a close in the gap with front-runner NBC News 's morning program, sustained her in the position far longer than anticipated.

On September 2, 2009, she was announced as the successor to Gibson, who retired as ABC World News anchor on Friday, December 18, 2009. She left GMA on December 11, 2009, and was scheduled to become the ABC World News anchor in January 2010. However, on December 1, 2009, ABC World News in January 2010, Sawyer would start on December 21, 2009, three days after Gibson's departure . For over a year in 2010-2011 with were women. Ratings jumped 8% for 60 days after her first four weeks, averaging 8.8 million viewers. She signs off at the end of her nightly broadcast with "I'll see you right back here tomorrow night." The show, like its competitor evening newscasts, ended the year with ratings 14% below that of the preceding year.

Career timeline

1967 1970: news and weather reporter

1970 1974:

1974 1978: Literary assistant to former President

1981 1984: CBS Morning News anchor

1984 1989: 60 Minutes correspondent

1989 1998, since 2000: co-anchor

1998 2000: 20/20 co-anchor

January 1999 December 11, 2009: Good Morning America co-anchor (Then Anchor when Charles Gibson left to ABC World News)

December 21, 2009 present: ABC World News anchor

Traveled to Haiti to cover the aftermath of the devastating earthquake

Recognition

In 2001 she was named one of the thirty most-powerful women in America by the Ladies' Home Journal . In 2007 she ranked 62nd on "Forbes Magazine's List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women ". She has won multiple awards, including a 2009 Peabody Award for her work on A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains.

Notable interviews (selected)

Sawyer has interviewed many political figures including U.S. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama . She conducted the first interview with U.S. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton after his first election to the presidency in 1992.

On February 12, 2007, she interviewed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . Her interview with Saddam Hussein was his first television interview in a decade.

She has also interviewed:

She was allowed to take a special tour of North Korea .

From the entertainment world, Sawyer has interviewed, especially as a host of GMA:

Sawyer also interviewed drug kingpin of , in 1989 and once again in 1997 on 60 Minutes .

Personal life

On April 29, 1988, she and Mike Nichols , a film director , were married. They have no children. Nichols has 3 from previous marriages: Daisy, born in 1964; Max, born in 1974; and Jenny, born in 1977. Sawyer had previously had relationships with diplomat . Forbes reported that she made $12 million in 2005.

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Diane Sawyer sees 8 percent boost in ratings as ABC's 'World News' anchor , Sherryl Connelly, New York Daily News, January 25, 2010

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COMPLETE LIST OF RECIPIENTS OF THE 69th ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS

Howard, Margo (November 5, 1984). "60 Minutes' Newest Correspondent, Diane Sawyer It Doesn't Take America's No. 1 Ex-Weathergirl to Know That the Wind Is Blowing Onward and Upward for 60 Minutes' Newest Correspondent" . People . Retrieved December 12, 2009.

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Diane Sawyer at the Internet Movie Database