Diane Sawyer
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Diane 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 Charles Gibson.
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.
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."
Trivia
- Was at one time considered a strong suspect for being Deep Throat. She was one of six people to request and receive a public denial from Bob Woodward.