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Diane Sawyer Biography

TV Newscaster

Diane Sawyer hosts the ABC morning news show Good Morning America. A graduate of Wellesley College (1967), Sawyer started in TV in Louisville, Kentucky, then became a press aide for the White House during the Nixon administration (she also assisted Nixon with his memoirs). She ended up at CBS in 1978, moving up the network ladder and eventually landing a gig alongside Mike Wallace on the news magazine 60 Minutes (1984-89) . She then jumped to ABC in 1989, co-hosting PrimeTime Live and 20/20 and, at one point, earning the distinction as the highest paid woman in American TV news. Sawyer built her reputation on tough investigative reports and interviews with world leaders and pop culture figures, and in 1999 she became an anchor for their daily show Good Morning America.

Extra credit: Sawyer is married to film and theatrical director Mike Nichols.

Other TV news personalities on Who2 include Mike Wallace, Walter Cronkite and Katie Couric.

Four Good Links

Diane Sawyer

Straightforward bio from ABC News

Sawyer, Diane

Career profile from the Museum of Broadcast Communications

Good Morning America

Official show site, with current video

Interview with Diane Sawyer

She talks about being a good journalist

Vital Stats

Birth

22 December 1945
(age 63)

Birthplace

Glasgow, Kentucky

Death

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Best Known As

Anchor of ABC's Good Morning America