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Sawyer, Diane L.
Currently alive, at 62 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Journalist, Reporters
1945 - Born on December 22nd in Glasgow, Kentucky.
1963 - Won in the America's Junior Miss pageant at Seneca High School, Louisville, Kentucky.
1967 - She received her B.A. English degree at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
1970-1974 - Served as a local TV news reporter for WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky.
- Hired by White House press secretary Ron Ziegler to serve in the administration of President Richard Nixon through his resignation.
1975 - Worked on the transition team between Nixon and Gerald Ford and assisting Nixon with his memoirs.
1978 - She joined the CBS network in Washington, DC and became a political correspondent for CBS.
1981 - Became a co-anchor of the CBS Morning News.
1984 - She became a correspondent for 60 Minutes, where she stayed for five years.
1988 - Married the film director, Mike Nichols, on April 29th.
1989 - She moved to ABC to co-anchor "Primetime Live" with Sam Donaldson.
1999-2006 - She became the co-anchor of Good Morning America along with Charles Gibson.
- Inducted into the Television Academy of Fame (1997).
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