Diane Sawyer has been quietly changing the face of ABC World News and has quickly distanced herself from the show’s former host Charlie Gibson, who retired at the end of 2009. Her placement as anchor of World News was done, not with a PR blitz similar to Katie Couric’s move on CBS, but with a whisper.
“Her network did announce that they would change the face of evening news,” says Martin Kaplan, director of the Norman Lear Center and journalism professor at the University of Southern California. “That was a burden that Katie Couric had to bear and that is not happening with the case of Diane Sawyer.”
Sawyer’s foreign reporting has been prolific compared to Gibson. She has already had trips to Copenhagen for an interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, flew to Afghanistan for reports on the latest news in the war on terror and then straight over to Haiti to cover the devastation from a massive earthquake earlier this month.
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