Diane SawyerBio, Wiki
Diane Sawyer is an American Anchor/ Reporter working for ABC News serving the station as an anchor/Reporter, TV Host, Correspondent, and Weathercaster. She has been working with this station since September 2014.
Diane Sawyer Age
Sawyer is 76 years old as of 2022. She was born on December 22, 1945, in Glasgow, Kentucky, United States.
Diane Sawyer Height
Sawyer stands at the height of 5 feet 9 inches tall.
Diane Sawyer Education
Sawyer is an alumnus of Seneca High School in the Buechel area of Louisville. While there, she worked for “The Arrow,” the school yearbook as editor-in-chief, and was part of multiple artistic activities. During her senior year there, in the year 1963, the Commonwealth of Kentucky honored her the 1st place in the annual National America’s Junior Miss scholarship pageant as a representative. For 2 years (1963 – 1965), she was America’s Junior Miss, where she toured the nation to promote the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the “1964–1965 New York World’s Fair.” Sawyer is also a proud 1967 graduate of Wellesley College.
Diane Sawyer Career
Sawyer works at ABC News as a special contributor. She produces documentaries, creates specials, and interviews high-profile interviews. From December 2009 to August 2014, Sawyer worked for ABC World News as an anchor. Additionally, Diane has co-anchored major programs such as “Primetime Newsmagazine,” “Good Morning America,” “ABC World News Tonight,” and “20/20.”
Prior to joining ABC News, she worked as a CBS Early Morning News co-anchor. She also worked for CBS News as the 1st woman correspondent on “60 Minutes,” for 5 years (1984–1989). Moreover, she anchored “Morning with Charles Kuralt” and “The CBS Morning” on CBS News for 4 years (1981–1984). Before that, she was an administrative assistant to Ron Ziegler (White House Press Secretary). Ultimately, she rose to a staff assistant for Richard Nixon (United States President).
Previously, Sawyer served as an assistant to the White House deputy press secretary, Jerry Warren. Furthermore, she began her journalism career at WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky where she worked as a weather forecaster and news anchor/reporter for 3 years (1967–1970). Before beginning her career, she served as a member of Richard Nixon’s (United States President) White House staff. Also, she was responsible for assisting in the president’s post-presidency memoirs.
Diane Sawyer Awards and Honors
Throughout her journalism career, Diane has won multiple awards and recognitions. In the year 2019, she was named a Disney Legend. This is an award given to the individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the legacy of Walt Disney. Brown University awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Letters in the year 2012. For Excellence in Journalism, Sawyer received the Walter Cronkite Award in the year 2010. In 2007, she did a segment, “A Call to Action: Saving Our Children” on ABC News, and for that, she won a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.
For Sawyer’s work on “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains,” she was awarded a Peabody Award in the year 2009. she also holds an Emmy Award which she received in the year 2007 for outstanding documentary and news program achievement. Sawyer was often chosen for the annual Forbes Magazine’s List of The World’s Hundred Most Powerful Women, since the year 2004.
The magazine once reported that she made about $12 million solely from entertainment income, for 3 years (June 2005 – June 2008). The Ladies Home Journal named Sawyer one of the 30 most powerful women in America, in the year 2001. In the previous year, she was awarded the Daytime Emmy Award for excellence in morning programming. She was inducted into the TV Hall of Fame in the year 1997 and in 1987, the American Academy of Achievement honored her with the Golden Plate Award.
Diane Sawyer’s Net Worth
In Sawyer’s career as an Anchor/Reporter, TV Host, Correspondent, and Weathercaster, she has been able to accumulate a net worth ranging between $10 Million and $80 Million.
Diane Sawyer Salary
She receives annual earnings that range between $35,000 and $100,000.
Diane Sawyer’s Parents and Siblings
Sawyer was born to her loving parents, Erbon Powers “Tom” Sawyer (mother) and Jean W (father). Her mom was a county judge and died at the age of 94. Her dad was an elementary school teacher. Soon after Sawyer was born, her family relocated to Louisville. Where her dad rose to local prominence as a community leader and Republican politician. Sawyer’s father lost his life in a car accident on Louisville’s Interstate 64 in the year 1969. At the time, he was Kentucky’s Jefferson County Judge/Executive. Sawyer’s ancestry includes German, English, Scots-Irish, and Irish. She was raised alongside her older sister Linda.
Diane Sawyer Spouse
Sawyer is neither married nor engaged to anyone at the moment. She was previously married to Mike Nichols, an American film and theatre director, comedian, producer, and actor. They tied the knot on April 29, 1988. Unfortunately, Mike passed on on November 19, 2014, at 83 years old. He was born on November 6, 1931, in Berlin, Germany. Before that, Diane married Mike Nichols, she was in relationships with Richard Holbrooke (an American diplomat), and an aide to President Richard Nixon, Frank Gannon.
Diane Sawyer Kids
Sawyer is a proud stepmother to her stepson and 2 stepdaughters, who are from Mike Nichols’s previous marriages. The names of the children are currently under review.
Diane Sawyer Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram
She is vocal on her social media accounts where she posts frequently. On her Twitter account, she has about 819k followers, around 34k followers on her Facebook page, and about 104k followers on her Instagram account.