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Diane Sawyer along with Charles Gibson and Robin Roberts.

Sawyer was born and raised in Glasgow, Kentucky, and received her English degree at Wellesley College in 1967. She served as a reporter for WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky until 1970, then was hired by White House press secretary Ron Ziegler to serve in the administration of President Richard Nixon through his resignation in 1974, working on the transition team between Nixon and Gerald Ford in 1975.

In 1978, she became a political correspondent for CBS, becoming a co-anchor of the In the comic strip Bloom County, a central character, Opus the penguin, had a long-time crush on Diane Sawyer., Kirsten Dunst's character repeatedly says that she aspires to win a beauty pageant and become a news anchor, "just like Diane Sawyer."In the movie Something's Gotta Give Jack Nicholas' character was at one time in his past engaged to Diane SawyerIn the movie Little Black Book Brittany Murphy's character has the career goal of working for Diane Sawyer, and end up achieving the goal at the end of the movie.Diane was often mentioned as a rival of fictional news-magazine anchor Murphy Brown on the popular sitcom of the same name.Was at one time considered a strong suspect for being Deep Throat during the Watergate scandal. She was one of six people to request and receive a public denial from Bob Woodward.