The New ‘World News’ Webpage
EmailJon Banner, Executive Producer of “World News with Diane Sawyer,” reports from New York:
I invite you to take a look at the new World News webpage. We have made some changes we hope will make it a better experience for you.
First, we have made the page more interactive and have increased the video offerings. You’ll also notice we have posted on fewer topics, but gone more in depth on the ones that we do. We hope you will come away with a deeper understanding of the important issues of the day.
Click your mouse here and look at what will be a regular feature from us. We are calling it “The Conversation.” Here Diane will sit down with our team of top-notch correspondents and discuss the big issues of the day. Viewers can use Twitter to ask us their questions on topics of the day by sending us a tweet @ABCWorldNews. “The Conversation” will be posted early afternoons and will be featured prominently on the World News page. Again this will give you a more in-depth perspective on the day’s events and will replace the World News Webcast which was a compilation of shorter reports on a number of topics.
On iTunes we will now offer two different podcasts: in place of the Webcast we will offer the full World News broadcast. It will be posted each day as soon as it’s available.
And now we will also add “The Conversation” for those who want to download it.
We will be continuing to make tweaks in the weeks ahead, and I look forward to getting your feedback.
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Tell Diane to quit moving her head or I am truning to NBC with Brian Williams.
Posted by: Marty Bernier | December 21, 2009, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
Diane,
Great job – be yourself – we love you!
Posted by: Cathy | December 21, 2009, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm
Great job Diane….Charlie’s shoes will be hard to fill….best of luck…and Merry Christmas
Posted by: Travis | December 21, 2009, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
Wrong choice ABC–I’m off to NBC.
Posted by: MJ | December 21, 2009, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
hi, recorded show & am about half thru it. really like diane very much, but here’s a question: how did all that stacked-up luggage get to where canceled flights didn’t?
Posted by: Kitty LeChat | December 21, 2009, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
I watched the World News Webcast every day since it began! I loved it’s convenience, afternoon time slot, unique content and good nature.
I’m very sad and disappointed it’s been canceled. There was nothing else quite like it online.
Posted by: Kevin | December 21, 2009, 8:00 pm 8:00 pm
Adding Diane Sawyer was the best move ABC could have possibly taken to increase their share of viewers. Although I am not a regular viewer of ABC, I am a regular viewer of your national news coverage. By utilizing Ms. Sawyer for the anchor of World News, ABC hit a Grand Slam Home Run! I will be a nightly viewer for a long, long, long, time! I wish I could credit ABC for moving John Stossel to Fox News, but I guess that was John’s decision. Another great move. Is there any chance of Diane Sawyer moving to Fox News? I guess, if that would happen, I would think I died and went to heaven. Until that happens I guess I will just have to tune to ABC at 530 PM every weekday to see Diane present the news. Other than that, I guess I will look forward to reports of John Stossel on FN which I watch the majority of my TV viewing. Thanks again!
Whimpy
Posted by: TR Wheaton | December 21, 2009, 9:20 pm 9:20 pm
…She is smooth as silk and quite savvy…one of my very favorite ladies…job well done Diane…
Love from Emma Lou
Posted by: Emma Lou Davis | December 21, 2009, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
Great job,Diane!
Posted by: Robert Graham | December 22, 2009, 8:53 am 8:53 am
Over the last couple years I requested many times on ABCNews that you begin podcasting the full World News broadcast – so now I want to say thanks SO much for doing it. I’ll be tuning into it daily.
Posted by: Josh Braun | December 22, 2009, 9:40 am 9:40 am
Sorry, I like Diane Sawyer but felt her first night was terrible! She is not a very good “news reader”. Purhaps she needs more practice with a teleprompter. Maybe Pres Obama could give her some hints….or may be he could replace Diane ……
Posted by: Cindy W. | December 22, 2009, 10:38 am 10:38 am
I watched WNT with Diane Sawyer last night. Unfortunately, my greatest fears have come true. She immediately started the show with exaggerated adjectives and expressions and continued that throughout the show. Her pace was picked up by at least one correspondent.
Therefore, it is with a lot of sadness that I will no long watch WNT after being a loyal listener for 30 years. She is the reason why I stopped watching GMA and now watch the Today Show. Now I will have to switch to CBS for another POV
Posted by: Tony | December 22, 2009, 11:10 am 11:10 am
Diane did an AMAZING job. Evening news at their finest. She has the knowledge and stature for this job, but besides being a serious news reporter, she brings her own flavor. Someone said she’s smooth as silk. Couldn’t have said it any better. Best decision ever ABC.but show some online web cast PLZ
Posted by: LadyM | December 22, 2009, 11:35 am 11:35 am
Jon Banner and Dianne, you missed another opportunity to strike a conciliatory tone with a foreign president. Could you imagine a foreign journalist coming to the USA and confront Obama with such proving question on domestic and foreign issues? Since opportunities are aplenty to pick, choose and demonize, why not to take to task workers in Detroit or home owners in Florida?
Posted by: jaime | December 22, 2009, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm
For her first day as anchor of the flag ship news of ABC NEWS, Diane did a great job she was direct and straight and presented herself very well. Overall A+
Posted by: Joe | December 22, 2009, 3:07 pm 3:07 pm
I have to praise ABC for giving Diane Sawyer the Anchor position. I was a fan of Diane on GMA and after her first News
cast I am a new viewer. Good luck Diane!
Peace Out!
Posted by: Thomas Rice | December 22, 2009, 5:53 pm 5:53 pm
Diane Sawyer is so amazing and enchanting as always. I became a fan of World News immediately!
Posted by: Hyesun | December 22, 2009, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
I think Diane is great but PLEASE do away with the fuzzy picture of her. I know its supposed to hide the imperfections of older women on TV (e.g. Barbara Walters) but I cannot stand to watch it. A long time ABC news viewer will now watch NBC.
Posted by: David W. | December 22, 2009, 6:47 pm 6:47 pm
I hope that World News Tonight gets better at reporting more World NEWS Events and less reporting on things like parties by the FAA. I guess I will have to switch to CBS. Whatever happened to just plain old REPORTING the FACTS and not trying to Mold viewers into having a opinion?
The line between Access Hollywood and Evening News just got even more blurred…
Posted by: Rick | December 22, 2009, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
Diane:
Thanks for bringing your “reporter” to
World News. Great job, no attempt at
being hard edge, all that newsy stuff.
Hair,makeup,wardrobe departments – the
best. A professional,you can do nothing
but take me seriously look for a very
seriously professional woman.
AND……………………..
Thanks so much for “and one more time
for Charlie Gibson…..I hope you had
a good day and a good night”
I watched Charlie say goodbye last Friday night….had a tear in my eye
when he said that one last time and
had a hard time holding back his own!
I am sure he was watching to see your
first class “acceptance” of the baton!
Posted by: Gayle D'Addario | December 22, 2009, 8:19 pm 8:19 pm
Diane,
That was awesome! Keep it up! I’m so excited that I get to watch a confident and intelligent woman on the evening news. Terrific. Thank you ABC for making such a wise choice.
Posted by: Candice Peters | December 22, 2009, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
Diane has to be the absolutely worse pick for your nightly news program. I am going to watch CNN instead.
Posted by: mark | December 22, 2009, 8:44 pm 8:44 pm
Diane Sawyer is TERRIBLE! Her tone, her banter, its all horrible. I have been watching ABC news every night for years and now have to chose between bad options (NBC or CBS) because she is just too painful to watch. I am sorry to be so harsh, as I am sure she is a nice person, but her condescending tone, her simplistic diction, her driving down the rigor of the conversation — it all makes the audience feel like she thinks we are stupid. Bad choice ABC. Harris, Stephanopolous, most anyone would have been magnitudes better. Heck, bring Couric over from CBS.
PS. What is up with Brian Ross and that FAA party segment? His reporting is also going down hill. Stuff like that really hurts ABC’s attempt to maintain credibility as a serious news program…
Posted by: Jon | December 22, 2009, 11:13 pm 11:13 pm
I loved to watch Diane on GMA
On World News she is terrible.
This ARE WORLD NEWS not housewife’s gossips
I am very disappointed.
Posted by: bojana Leznicki | December 23, 2009, 7:59 am 7:59 am
Diane needs to stop moving her head.
Posted by: Joe | December 23, 2009, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
I was very disappointed with the cancellation of the World News Webcast. It was the first news broadcast aimed at people under 60: An innovative young approach, with lots of new talent and ideas, miles ahead of anyone else. Was it prohibitively expensive to continue its’ production? I will miss all the new correspondents, New Music Monday and Friday at the Movies. Please rethink your strategy. A re-run of Diane Sawyer’s old fashioned newscast, without the ability to jump stories, doesn’t do much for me. Thanks for listening.
Posted by: Karl Zuk | December 26, 2009, 2:48 pm 2:48 pm
Diane is doing a good job! The question is “How long will she last”? Or is she just keeping the seat warm for George Step?
Posted by: LoveAt350 | December 28, 2009, 8:51 am 8:51 am
if nothing, regarding airline security, has changed since Sept. 11 then exactly what did Bush and Cheney do in the 7 years they had to fix it??
Posted by: sue | December 30, 2009, 6:55 pm 6:55 pm
Let’s seeeee 23-7 would work. OH, I mean 23 minutes of NEWS not commercials. Jounalism or Commercialism. Come-on Diane make a change that counts!
Posted by: Jon Sawyer | January 4, 2010, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
Dropping The daily World News Webcast was a bad idea IMO. Another viewer lost…
Posted by: Bill LaRocque | January 6, 2010, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
I agree with Tony, “She immediately started the show with exaggerated adjectives and expressions and continued that throughout the show.”
I’m 53, have been a devout ABC viewer for the majority my adult life. But what Tony describes is exactly the reason I no longer DVR ABC news and have switched.
Diane was great for short interviews and I enjoyed her very much in small snippets. But an entire news broadcast with all of the dramatic facial expressions and voice inflictions are too much for me.
Posted by: Steven | January 20, 2010, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Trade Unions have been saying and doing it forever. Buy made in U S A.
Posted by: Jeff Kashner | June 27, 2011, 7:03 pm 7:03 pm