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Diane
Sawyer anchors ABC "World News" from Cronkite School
Phoenix
(Nov. 11, 2010) - Diane Sawyer will anchor the ABC News national newscast
“World News with Diane Sawyer” tonight and tomorrow from the rooftop
of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at
Arizona State University.
Sawyer
is in Phoenix to receive the school’s Walter Cronkite Award for
Excellence in Journalism at a luncheon Friday at the Arizona Biltmore,
with more than 1,200 media, business, political and civic leaders joining
Cronkite School students, faculty, staff, alumni and supporters.
Last
year, Brian Williams anchored the “NBC Nightly News” from Cronkite the
evening before he received the Cronkite Award.
Sawyer
also will speak to students in the First Amendment Forum of the Cronkite
School on Friday morning before the luncheon ceremonies.
Last
week, ABC News was at Cronkite for a seven-hour election town hall special
that was anchored by David Muir of ABC News, Cronkite NewsWatch anchor
Natalie Podgorski and Facebook Communications Director Randi Zuckerberg.
That was streamed live on abcnews.com and Facebook and Sawyer, who was
anchoring the network’s election night coverage, did several cut-ins
from the Cronkite Theater.
The
school has developed a strong partnership with ABC over the past five
years under the leadership of Janice Todd, the general manager of ABC15 in
Phoenix.
Todd,
who serves on the Cronkite Endowment Board, championed the effort to bring
Sawyer and ABC News to Cronkite. She also helped the Cronkite School
become a founding school in the ABC News on Campus program and her station
airs student-produced Cronkite News packages on the Saturday newscasts.
Todd also has been instrumental in securing major grants from the Scripps
Howard Foundation for the school’s diversity and high school recruitment
efforts.
Sawyer,
who will be the 27th recipient of the Cronkite Award, has traveled around
the world, covering breaking news and delivering in-depth investigative
reports. She took over from Charlie Gibson as the ABC News anchor in
December – one of only two women who have served in that role. For 10
years, she was the popular co-anchor of “Good Morning America.”
Sawyer
joined ABC News in February 1989 as co-anchor of “Primetime.” Prior to
that, she spent nine years at CBS News, during which time she became the
first female correspondent of “60 Minutes” and co-anchored the “CBS
Morning News.”
She
has reported on presidential elections, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks and Hurricane Katrina and was the first American journalist to
report live from North Korea. Sawyer, who was inducted into the Television
Academy Hall of Fame in 1997, has won dozens of awards, including duPonts,
Emmys, Peabodys, an International Radio & Television Society
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award.
Diane
Sawyer to receive Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism
Friday
PHOENIX
(Nov. 10, 2010) Diane Sawyer, the award-winning anchor of ABC’s flagship
newscast “World News with Diane Sawyer,” will receive the 27th Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Friday at a luncheon ceremony
at the Arizona Biltmore.
The
award is given to leading journalists by the Walter Cronkite School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Past
recipients include Brian Williams, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer, Tom
Brokaw, Jane Pauley, Katharine Graham, Bob Woodward, Ben Bradlee and
George Will.
Sawyer
will receive the 27th annual Cronkite Award at the luncheon that is
attended by about 1,000 media leaders, business executives, politicians,
civic leaders and Cronkite School supporters. She will broadcast
ABC’s “World News with Diane Sawyer” from the Cronkite School in
Phoenix on Thursday and Friday evening.
During
her long career, Sawyer has traveled around the world, covering breaking
news and delivering in-depth investigative reports. She took over from
Charlie Gibson as the ABC News anchor in December – one of only two
women who have served in that role. For 10 years, she was the popular
co-anchor of “Good Morning America.”
Sawyer
joined ABC News in February 1989 as co-anchor of “Primetime.” Prior to
that, she spent nine years at CBS News, during which time she became the
first female correspondent of “60 Minutes” and co-anchored the
“CBS Morning News.”
She
has reported on presidential elections, the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks and Hurricane Katrina and was the first American journalist to
report live from North Korea. Sawyer, who was inducted into the Television
Academy Hall of Fame in 1997, has won dozens of awards, including duPonts,
Emmys, Peabodys, an International Radio & Television Society
Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism
Award.
Media
planning to cover the lunch may contact Julie Newberg at julie.newberg@asu.edu
or (480) 727-3116 for details. No cameras will be allowed up front near
the stage.
For
additional information about the Cronkite Luncheon, go to http://cronkite.asu.edu/node/900
What:
27th Annual Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism Luncheon
When:
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Friday, Nov. 12, 2010
Where:
Arizona Biltmore, 2400 E. Missouri Ave., Phoenix
Information:
http://cronkite.asu.edu/node/900
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