Diane Sawyer

    By Eamon Murphy

    | 1:10PM 4/17/2012
    In an interview Monday with Mitt Romney, ABC New's Dianne Sawyer said what many of her viewers wanted to know was, 'Are you too rich to relate?" Was the ex-governor's answer on point, or a dodge?

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 9:15AM 9/07/2010
    ABC News President David Westin is leaving his job after 14 years. A corporate mandate to increase his division's profitability apparently conflicted with his own commitment to high-prestige journalism.

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 11:46AM 12/22/2009
    Diane Sawyer's first night as host of Disney Co.'s ABC World News Tonight was greeted by a lot of fanfare about how little fanfare greeted it. The critics seem to agree that ABC now has an "understated" and "smooth" anchor in the evening news chair.

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:30PM 12/10/2009
    At some point on Thursday, ABC News will announce that George Stephanopoulos will replace Diane Sawyer as the co-host of Good Morning America when Sawyer becomes the anchor of World News Tonight. If you have trouble picturing the former Clinton aide and current host of This Week as a chatty, bubbly...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 5:20PM 9/02/2009
    Talking about winners in the evening news game is a little like talking about the luckiest slot-machine addicts: the long-term odds do not work in their favor, no matter how far they're up at any given moment. But setting aside the quarter-century slide in aggregate audience, the succession of...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 12:20PM 9/02/2009
    The generational shift in nightly news continues. Charles Gibson is stepping down as anchor of World News Tonight at the end of the year, yielding his role on the second place network news broadcast to Diane Sawyer, his former Good Morning America co-host. Gibson has anchored World News since May...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 2:30PM 2/02/2009
    I wondered this weekend, who would pay for the octuplets (and their six siblings and mom's hospital bills)? It turns out there is an easy answer: come on, big money, big money. Just as opportunistic American media darlings like "bachelorette" Trista & her hubbie Ryan, the Roloff family, and...

    By Bruce Watson

    | 5:00PM 1/15/2009
    It seems like 2008 was the year when America started to rethink its stand on prostitution. Traditionally, the world's oldest profession has been a definite no-no in the U.S., constrained to shady streets, dark alleys, and the occasional legal brothel in Nevada. In 2008, however, it seemed to wander...