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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.
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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.
Sawyer has been married to movie director Mike Nichols since April 29, 1988.
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 Nicholas' character was at one time
in his past engaged to Diane Sawyer |
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