Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer is a multitalented broadcast journalist with a strong commitment to getting the whole story and presenting a new side of things to her viewers. Diane Sawyer is a Kentucky native born December 22, 1945, and remained in Kentucky until 1970. During her time there she earned an English degree at Wellesley College and quickly found work as a TV reporter with the Louisville-based WLKY. Her talents—and perhaps her semester of law school—quickly put her above her position with WLKY and within three years of beginning work at the station she found herself drafted into the ranks of the Nixon administration.

Diane Sawyer began work under Ron Ziegler, the press secretary, and was an effective and busy force in the press office before moving on to other roles. She worked through the 1975 transition to the Ford administration and left the White House with a new sense of her own abilities. Since that time Diane Sawyer has been a pioneer in investigative journalism, traveling the world bringing to light news stories many would rather remain hidden. She has shown the toll of the second Gulf War by accompanying airplanes filled with soldiers wounded in the war, and following up with visits to veteran hospitals. Diane Sawyer has interviewed world leaders ranging from George W. Bush to Fidel Castro and has reported from the less than journalism-friendly locations of Russia and North Korea.

ABC has recognized both her journalism and broadcast talent, in 1989 placing her at the co-anchor position for its news magazine “PrimeTime.” After demonstrating class and gaining viewer appreciation while reporting some of the world’s least told stories from far away, unpleasant locations, Diane Sawyer was also in 1999 assigned to the position of co-host for “Good Morning America.” Diane Sawyer was won several awards for investigative journalism, along with Emmys. She is married to Mike Nichols, the director behind such films as Primary Colors and Closer.