Diane Sawyer

is anchor of ABC’s flagship broadcast World News. She is also the network’s principal anchor for breaking news, election coverage, and special events.

Ms. Sawyer is one of the most respected journalists in the world. She has traveled the globe delivering in-depth and breaking news reports and has conducted interviews with almost every major newsmaker of our time. During the historic 2008 presidential election, Ms. Sawyer co-anchored ABC News’ coverage of the political conventions, Election Night, and the Inauguration. Over the course of the campaign, she conducted wide-ranging interviews with the candidates and also reported “Portrait of a President”, two hour-long specials that revealed new insight into Barack Obama, John McCain and their families.

In June 2009, along with Charles Gibson, Ms. Sawyer moderated “Questions for the President: Prescription for America”, a conversation with President Obama about healthcare reform at the White House.

Through her distinguished documentary work, Ms. Sawyer has tackled challenging issues in primetime. In 2006, her report on the crises in the foster care system was recognized with the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award. In January 2007, Ms. Sawyer delivered an eye-opening report on poverty in America, “Waiting on the World to Change”. Ms. Sawyer and her team of producers spent two years in the hills of Appalachia reporting the February 2009 special “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains”.

Ms. Sawyer’s other primetime documentaries include: an investigation into the warehousing of Russian children in state-run orphanages; a diary of life inside a woman's maximum security prison where she spent two days and nights with inmates; an investigation into the neglect and abuse at state-run institutions for the mentally retarded; and a landmark investigation into pharmacy prescription errors.

In October 2006, Ms. Sawyer traveled to North Korea and brought viewers an unprecedented look inside that secretive country. The first American journalist to ever report live from North Korea, Ms. Sawyer also anchored “North Korea: Inside The Shadows”, an hour-long primetime special that included interviews with key government and military officials and new information on what life is like for North Koreans.

In February of 2007, Ms. Sawyer traveled to Syria and Iran, where she had conducted exclusive interviews with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In April 2008, Ms. Sawyer anchored Good Morning America from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia.

Ms. Sawyer also reported from Southeast Asia in the wake of the deadly 2005 tsunami; from Moscow, where she made her way into the office of Boris Yeltsin at the pinnacle of the Soviet coup; from Egypt during the Gulf War, where she interviewed President Hosni Mubarak; and Amman, Jordan, where she interviewed King Hussein and Queen Noor. During the Iraq War, she conducted an exclusive interview with one of the main architects of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program, Dr. Rihab Taha, nicknamed “Dr. Germ”.

On September 11, 2001, Ms. Sawyer, along with Charles Gibson, began the network’s award-winning coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. In the days that followed, Ms. Sawyer reported live from Ground Zero and later interviewed more than 60 widows who gave birth after the World Trade Center disaster.

Ms. Sawyer’s reporting has been recognized with numerous awards including duPonts, Emmys, Peabodys, the grand prize of the premier Investigative Reporters and Editors Association, an IRTS Lifetime Achievement Award, and the USC Distinguished Achievement in Journalism Award. In 1997, she was inducted into the Television Academy of Hall of Fame.

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