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| Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945 as Lila Diana Sawyer) is a television journalist for the U.S. network ABC News and co-anchor of ABC's Good Morning America along with Charles Gibson and Robin Roberts. 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. It is speculated that Sawyer could soon become the permanent replacement for both Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff on the ABC evening news program World News Tonight. Some speculate this is due to the impending elongated pregnancy leave of current host Elizabeth Vargas, as well as the impending replacement of Bob Schieffer with Katie Couric as the sole female host on CBS's Evening News. For about a month after Woodruff's injury, Sawyer acted as substitute host for Bob Woodruff, co-hosting the program with Vargas on Wednesdays and Thursdays. However, it appears least likely to happen due to the fact that both Sawyer and Gibson are needed on Good Morning America, especially to take advantage of Couric's departure from The Today Show, and the fact that the GMA crew has be told that Gibson and Sawyer will remain co-anchors of GMA throughout the Fall of 2006. |
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