Diane Sawyer

Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
12/22/1945
Birthplace:
Glasgow, Kentucky
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One of the most successful anchors and news reporters of her generation, Diane Sawyer possesses a combination of poise and intelligence that audiences respond to and that has lifted her from the ranks to become a chief asset of ABC News. She was able to lure Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley to do their first interview as husband and wife in 1995, but Sawyer's status as a journalist was based far more on such efforts as her ground-breaking stories on televangelism, the KGB post in the Soviet Union, and the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. While the willowy blonde was not a female Continued
Credits
(TV Show)
2005-2008
Writer
2006
Anchor
2006
Writer
2005
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milestones
Year
Milestone
 
Born and raised in Kentucky
1962 
Won America's Junior Miss pageant and $11,000 college scholarship (was America's Junior Miss for 1963)
1967 
Began broadcasting career as "weather girl" on WLKY, Louisville, Kentucky
1970 
Worked as aide to press secretary in Nixon Administration
1974 
Went into exile with Nixon to help him prepare his memoirs
Continued