DIANE SAWYER
Diane Sawyer is a daughter of a local politician in Kentucky. She attended Seneca High School, where she made her first steps toward journalism, serving as an editor-in-chief for the school’s paper. During her senior year, she won the national America’s Junior Miss scholarship pageant. For several years after, she would tour across the nation as America’s Junior Miss. In 1967 she graduated from Wellesley College with a Bachelor’s degree in English.
Not long after graduating, Diane started her career in TV broadcasting. She was then employed as a weather forecaster for a local Louisville station, WLKY-TV. Feeling unfulfilled, she then moved to Washington DC but would experience a short stint in career opportunities in broadcasting. She then settled for an assistant position for the White House deputy press secretary. It wasn’t until 1978 that she would join the network CBS where she’d climb the ranks through the years. Nowadays, she is known for her TV broadcasting works such as in 20/20, Good Morning America, and ABC World News Tonight, among others.