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ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer

ByABC News via logo
December 20, 2000, 4:49 PM

<!-- --> -- Diane Sawyer joined ABC News in February 1989, as co-anchor of Primetime Live now known as Primetime Thursday. In addition to her Primetime assignment, Ms. Sawyer was named co-anchor, with Charles Gibson, of Good Morning America in January 1999.

In addition to these duties, she has also served as co-anchor of ABC News' Turning Point, which premiered in March 1994.

Since the premiere of Primetime in August 1989, Sawyer has traveled extensively across the United States and abroad to report on and investigate a wide range of topics and to interview a diverse group of newsmakers and personalities.

Most recently, Sawyer reported live from Ground Zero during the week of Sept. 11 and interviewed over 60 widows who gave birth after the World Trade Center disaster. She recently returned to Afghanistan to reunite the women profiled in her landmark 1996 report from behind the burqua, as one of the first Western journalists to expose the plight of women under Taliban rule. She also presented a groundbreaking two-hour special on gay adoption and the foster care system, featuring Rosie O'Donnell's personal story as a gay parent.

Her interviews include President George W. Bush in his first national interview; Saddam Hussein, the first Western television interview granted by the Iraqi President for nearly a decade; President Fidel Castro; Robert MacNamara's public apology on Vietnam; Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, the convicted Mafia member who turned against the Gambino crime family and his boss, John Gotti; Ellen DeGeneres, who announced her homosexuality; ousted Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega's first interview from prison; Michael Jackson and his then-wife Lisa Marie Presley's only interview; Michael J. Fox's interview about Parkinson's disease and the decision to leave his show; and former First Lady Nancy Reagan on President Reagan's battle with Alzheimer's disease and their 50-year marriage. She also had the first interview at home with the Clintons after the 1992 presidential election.