Diane Sawyer attended Seneca High School in the Buechel area of Louisville.
30 Facts About Diane Sawyer
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Diane Sawyer served as an editor-in-chief for her school yearbook, The Arrow, and participated in many artistic activities.
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Diane Sawyer always felt that she was in the shadow of her sister, Linda.
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Insecure and something of a loner as a teen, Diane Sawyer found happiness, she later said, going off by herself or with a group of friends that called themselves "reincarnated transcendentalists" and read Emerson and Thoreau down by a creek.
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Diane Sawyer won by her strength of poise in the final interview and her essay comparing the music of the North and the South during the Civil War.
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Immediately after her graduation, Diane Sawyer returned to Kentucky and was employed as a weather forecaster for WLKY-TV in Louisville.
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Finally, Diane Sawyer was promoted to a general-assignment post, but this did not sustain her interest for long.
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In 1970, Diane Sawyer moved to Washington, DC, and, unable to find work as a broadcast journalist, she interviewed for positions in government offices.
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Diane Sawyer eventually became an assistant to Jerry Warren, the White House deputy press secretary.
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Diane Sawyer helped prepare Nixon for his famous set of television interviews with journalist David Frost in 1977.
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Years later, Diane Sawyer would be suspected of being Deep Throat, the source of leaks of classified information to journalist Bob Woodward during the Watergate scandal.
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Diane Sawyer laughed it off and became one of six people to request and receive a public denial from Woodward.
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When Diane Sawyer came back to Washington, DC, in 1978, she joined CBS News as a general-assignment reporter.
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Diane Sawyer was promoted to political correspondent in February 1980 and featured on the weekday broadcasts of Morning with Charles Kuralt.
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When CBS expanded its morning news show from 60 to 90 minutes, Diane Sawyer was announced as co-anchor on May 13,1981, by the president of CBS News.
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The ratings decreased further, and Diane Sawyer asked to be reassigned in 1984.
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From 1982 to 1984, Diane Sawyer was seen with Kurtis on the CBS Early Morning News airing an hour earlier on most CBS affiliates.
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On January 18,1999, Diane Sawyer returned to morning news as the co-anchor of Good Morning America with Charles Gibson.
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In 2000, Diane Sawyer returned as co-anchor of Primetime newsmagazine now called Primetime Thursday, with Gibson replacing Donaldson.
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Diane Sawyer was the first to announce to Good Morning America viewers that the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11,2001.
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In 2004, when the show's title was changed to its original name, Primetime Live, a new executive producer was hired, and the newsmagazine format was changed to investigative reporting with Diane Sawyer rotating as the co-anchor with Chris Cuomo, Cynthia McFadden, and John Quinones.
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In 2005, the show was retitled Primetime, and Diane Sawyer left the show at the end of 2006 when its format again changed, with a sub-series focus.
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Diane Sawyer achieved worldwide acclaim after subjecting Mel Gibson to an intense television interrogation, after his 2006 DUI arrest.
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On September 2,2009, Diane Sawyer was announced as the successor to Charles Gibson, who retired as the anchor of ABC World News, on Friday, December 18,2009.
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Diane Sawyer left GMA on December 11,2009, and was scheduled to become the ABC World News anchor in January 2010.
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However, on December 1,2009, The New York Times reported that, instead of moving to ABC World News in January 2010, Diane Sawyer would start on December 21,2009, three days after Gibson's departure.
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Diane Sawyer remained with ABC News to focus on creating specials and conducting high-profile interviews.
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Diane Sawyer was in relationships with Frank Gannon, aide to President Richard Nixon, as well as American diplomat Richard Holbrooke, and actor Warren Beatty.
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Diane Sawyer died on November 19,2014, at the age of 83.
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The "List of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women" in Forbes magazine reported that, between June 2005 and June 2008, Diane Sawyer made approximately $12 million, solely from entertainment income.