NEW YORK (AP) — ABC News’ Diane Sawyer is reprising her interview with Caitlyn Jenner, with the former Olympic gold medalist slated to talk about her first couple of years […]
ABC News will air a two-hour interview between Diane Sawyer and Bruce Jenner, the former Olympian whose quest for sexual identity has been the subject of much speculation in recent weeks. The special’s air date falls on the second day of TV’s May sweeps period, April 24.
Legendary film and theater director, writer and producer Mike Nichols died suddenly on Wednesday at 83. An Oscar winner for 1967′s seminal The Graduate, he also was nominated for such films as Working Girl, Silkwood and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolf. For his stage work, he amassed eight Tony Awards. His death was announced on Thursday morning by ABC News President James Goldston. Nichols was married to ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer.
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The Triumph Of Women In Network News
In the long, exhausting march to equality, the trope about successful women is that they’re not only as qualified as their male counterparts, but better: more talented, more collegial and basically nicer human beings. That is patently untrue in The News Sorority, Sheila Weller’s dishy, bitchy biography of Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Christiane Amanpour. The three newswomen are portrayed as exceptional primarily for their ambition, entitlement and ability to manipulate network executives. Forget those feel-good inspirational platitudes: This book reads like the love child of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In.
While it’s been known for months that this was Sawyer’s last week as World News anchor, it wasn’t until she tweeted earlier Wednesday that it became clear she wasn’t anchoring on Thursday and Friday. On Wednesday’s newscast, she chatted briefly on the set with her successor David Muir and took viewers on a behind-the-scenes tour.
Diane Sawyer will lead “new programming,” the network said today, “tackling big issues and extraordinary interviews”. George Stephanopoulos, who anchors Good Morning America and This Week, will add the title “chief anchor of ABC News” and handle special reports and breaking news. David Miur, who has anchored 20/20 since 2013 as well as the weekend newscast, will become anchor and managing editor of World News starting Sept. 2.
Sawyer Makes Rating History With May Win
ABC’s Diane Sawyer made ratings history in May when her World News became the first evening news program solely hosted by a female to win a sweep month in the industry’s most coveted demo.
In a cover story in the current issue of Ladies’ Home Journal, the ABC News anchor covers a range of topics in a Q&A with Lee Woodruff, including her future at the network.
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani met with the nation’s top media in an off-the-record interview to discuss why he turned down a meeting with President Obama and concerns over Iran’s nuclear capabilities. Broadcasters at the meeting included ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, CNN president Jeff Zucker, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and PBS’ Gwen Ifill.
Report: Diane Sawyer Weighs Stepping Down
The groundbreaking newswoman is said to be “seriously considering” retirment as early as this year. An ABC rep denies it: “That’s a bunch of nonsense as we made clear and Diane’s plans for 2013 haven’t changed in any way.”
Viewers: Sawyer, Cooper Favorite Anchors
Last month, Harris Interactive surveyed 2,016 adults, giving them a list of 26 current affairs personalities and asking them to name their three favorites and three least favorites. Coming in first place under the “favorite” umbrella was ABC’s Diane Sawyer, who was beloved by 23% of poll-takers. Katie Couric was the least favorite at 10%.
NEW YORK (AP) — Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords will give her first TV interview since being shot in January to Diane Sawyer of ABC News. Giffords, shot in the head […]
ABC News announced Wednesday that Diane Sawyer had landed an exclusive interview with Jaycee Lee Dugard, the California woman who was kidnapped at age 11 and held against her will for 18 years.
The network announced Wednesday that for the first time viewers will hear the former First Lady in conversations with historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The recordings were made in the spring of 1964 and sealed until now.
he February finishing order for the network evening newscasts didn’t look much different, with Brian Williams‘ NBC Nightly News taking top honors, followed by Diane Sawyer’s ABC World News and Katie Couric’s CBS Evening News finishing last. But ABC was the only network to show growth (it was up 1%).
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — ABC’s Diane Sawyer will air the first television interview with astronaut Mark Kelly, the husband of shooting victim Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The network said that Kelly […]
Diane Sawyer Feeling Out Of Place
Diane Sawyer has been berating her ABC World News producers for repeatedly sending her to the wrong continent for breaking news, according to a network source.
PHOENIX (AP) — ABC newswoman Diane Sawyer is expected to receive a journalism excellence award in Phoenix on Friday. Sawyer anchors ABC’s flagship newscast, “World News with Diane Sawyer” and […]
