Diane Sawyer

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Diane Sawyer at the Tribeca Film Festival (2011)

Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945 in Glasgow , Kentucky ) is an American TV journalist and presenter for the American Broadcasting Company . Among other things, she moderated the program Good Morning America . In 2007, she was ranked 62nd on Forbes Magazine 's " List of the World's 100 Most Influential Women ".

Life

Shortly after she was born, her family moved to Louisville , where her father, Erbon Powers "Tom" Sawyer made a community career as a politician and judge / executive of Jefferson County . After his death, the EP "Tom" Sawyer State Park near Frey's Hill was named after him in his memory . Diane Sawyer attended Seneca High School in the Buechel neighborhood of Louisville. In 1963 she won the "America's Junior Miss" - scholarship of the State of Kentucky. In 1967 she graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts with a degree in English .

Sawyer was dating Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s and in 1974 met her future boyfriend, Frank Gannon, an employee and close confidante of President Richard Nixon . She then dated Warren Beatty . On April 29, 1988, she married director Mike Nichols .

Among other things, she is a member of the "CFR" and on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation , a non-profit organization that tries to fight the consequences of poverty in New York City .

Career

After studying law at the University of Louisville , she first worked as a local TV news reporter and weather spokesperson for "WLKY-TV" in Louisville. In 1970 she was hired by Ron Ziegler , then White House Press Secretary , as President Nixon's Chief Executive Officer. She worked in this position until the handover from Nixon to Gerald Ford (1975). She then supported Nixon in preparing for the interviews with David Frost and in writing his memoirs. A few years later the rumor arose that Sawyer was the informant " Deep Throat " of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein in the context of the Watergate affair . Bob Woodward denied this as a hoax .

In 1978, Sawyer was hired by CBS as a correspondent and three years later co- hosted by Bill Kurtis for the CBS Morning News program . From 1984 to 1989 she was a correspondent for 60 Minutes . In the same year she was poached by ABC for Primetime Live . In 1999 Sawyer was able to sign a lucrative contract for Good Morning America .

Politicians like George W. Bush , Bill and Hillary Clinton (1992), Mahmud Ahmadinejad (2007), Saddam Hussein , Fidel Castro , Robert McNamara , Nancy Reagan and Manuel Noriega answered questions. She conducted extraordinary interviews with well-known criminals such as Charles Manson , Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten .

At the end of 2009, Sawyer switched to ABC News and hosted their main program ABC World News on weekdays through August 2014 .

Awards

  • 11 Emmy Awards
  • 2 Peabody Awards
  • Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, 2000
  • 2 Dupont Awards
  • Irish Radio Transmitters Society's Lifetime Achievement Award
  • "USC Distinguished Achievement in Journalism Award"
  • George Polk Award , 2004

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Most Powerful Women In Media , Suzanne Hoppough, forbes.com, 07.28.05
  2. ↑ The elected executive committee of a county , from: Kleber, John E .; Thomas D. Clark; Lowell H. Harrison and James C. Klotter, The Kentucky Encyclopedia , The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1992, ISBN 0-8131-1772-0
  3. ^ EP "Tom" Sawyer State Park , Commonwealth of Kentucky
  4. ^ The Once and Future Kissinger , New York Magazine
  5. ↑ FBI's No. 2 "What Deep Throat" , The Washington Post , June 1, 2005
  6. ↑ SAWYER, DIANE US Broadcast Journalist ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Museum of Broadcast Communications @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum.tv
  7. ↑ Forbes estimated her salary in 2005/2006 at US $ 12 million
  8. ^ A b c d e f g Diane Sawyer , ABC News, April 26, 2007
  9. ↑ http://www.thewrap.com/diane-sawyer-on-why-shes-leaving-abcs-world-news-tonight-video/
  10. ↑ Copy of their "Primetime Live" report: " Some Veterans " (English) , "Some Veterans" received a Peabody Award
  11. ^ Long Island University Announces Winners of 2004 George Polk Awards
personal data
SURNAME Sawyer, Diane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sawyer, Lila Diane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American TV journalist and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow , Kentucky