Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer is a journalist, news anchor and philanthropist. She has been the co-anchor of the ABC News programs Primetime Live since 1989 and Good Morning America since 1999.

Sawyer has been granted a number of high-profile exclusive interviews with celebrities and politicians, including Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, Michael J. Fox, George W. Bush, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Saddam Hussein, Fidel Castro, Charles Manson and others.

Sawyer's investigative journalism has included an expose of conditions in Russian orphanages, televangelist financial mismanagement, the famine in North Korea, and reporting from the office of then-president Boris Yeltsin during the peak of the attempted coup in the Soviet Union. Sawyer's work has earned her multiple DuPont, Emmy, George Foster Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy awards.

Sawyer held several positions in the Nixon administration and on the Nixon-Ford transitional team. Following the resignation of Richard M. Nixon, she assisted the former president with his first memoirs. Sawyer is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation.