Howard Kurtz shadowed Diane Sawyer while she was running around during a day of production for ABC World News at the network's studios on Columbus Avenue.
To start the day, Ms. Sawyer looks like a "64-year-old housewife in need of a cup of coffee," wrote Mr. Kurtz.
Later Mr. Kurtz showed Ms. Sawyer ducking in Read More
Arriving at Vogue’s annual Costume Institute gala at the Met (theme: “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity”), editor Anna Wintour emerged from a chauffered black SUV wearing a dove-gray gown covered in a Chanel silver-sequined jacket. It was the ultimate boyfriend blazer.
She was accompanied by her daughter, Bee Shaffer, in floor-length, ivory Balenciaga covered with Read More
George Stephanopoulos had a Heineken with Steven Colbert last night, and talked about his new gig at Good Morning America, which requires him to not only rouse himself at 3:45 every morning, but sit through soft-focus segments on, say, the best online coupons.
Mr. Colbert posited a theory about why the successful host Read More
Next week, on the evening of Monday, December 21, Diane Sawyer will make her debut as the new anchor of ABC's World News, replacing Charles Gibson. On Monday morning, coinciding with the changing of the guard, ABC News will also be unveiling a new version of the World News Web site, The Observer has Read More
Diane Sawyer takes over ABC World News Monday night, joining Katie Couric as a female face for the nightly news—a momentous thing in the male-dominated world of news anchordom.
And as women, there are several questions Sawyer and Couric are bound to inspire: What will they wear? And how much will we care?
On the morning of Friday, Dec. 11, Diane Sawyer said goodbye to Good Morning America viewers after more than ten years of co-hosting ABC's morning show.
GMA producers marked the day with a series of mellifluous tributes, looking back at a decade of highlights. Ms. Sawyer wading through the high waters of Katrina. Ms. Read More
It was Tuesday morning, the day after Labor Day, and Diane Sawyer was smiling brightly and wearing black. Toward the top of the hour, Chris Cuomo, one of her co-anchors on Good Morning America, looked at the camera and ran through the morning’s headlines. There was swine flu spreading rapidly through American schools, an alleged Read More
After all the controversy, ABC News' prime-time town-hall-style interview with the president, Questions for the President: Prescription for America, put up so-so ratings on Wednesday night.
At the 10 p.m. hour, the special, moderated by Diane Sawyer and Charles Gibson, attracted 4.7 million viewers. That's slighly more than half the audience that tuned in earlier Read More
On Sunday, Diane Sawyer appeared as a guest on CNN's Reliable Sources, where anchor Howard Kurtz asked her about the controversy surrounding ABC News' upcoming town hall style interview with President Obama about health care reform.
During the interview, Ms. Sawyer revealed that ABC News had tried to set up a similar type style Read More
William Morris Endeavor literary agent Suzanne Gluck has a proposal out for a book by Glamour contributing editor Sheila Weller about Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour. The working title of the book, according to someone who saw the proposal, is The New Sorority, and like Ms. Weller’s previous books, it will be Read More
First, it was NBC News and its legions of anchors, and reporters, and photographers who descended on the White House. Now, ABC News is getting its shot.
ABC's field trip to the White House will kick off early on Wednesday, June, 24 when Good Morning America broadcasts from the South Lawn. That evening, Charles Gibson Read More
Here’s Eliot Spitzer’s call girl, Ashley Dupre, with ABC’s Diane Sawyer.In an email just sent to reporters promoting Sawyer’s interview with Dupre (airing November 21), it says Dupre“speaks candidly about what life as a high-end escort is like, how an upper-middle class girl next door got inot the professional and the psychological journey she Read More
Over the weekend, Michael Bloomberg and ABC News invited Barack Obama and John McCain to debate each other in a 90-minute town hall showdown, which would be broadcast live in primetime from Federal Hall.
ABC's Good Morning America anchor Diane Sawyer—who did not get the opportunity to moderate a debate in the primaries—would Read More
In the wake of comments she made about Barack Obama that have drawn criticism from both his campaign and the press (and then further comments that were even more controversial), Clinton finance committee-member Geraldine Ferraro made the rounds to morning shows today. In case you missed it, here's a clip from her interview Read More
It’s just past 8 a.m. on the set of ABC’s Good Morning America, and Samantha Finck is crying like a baby. She is a baby--Samantha is one-sixth of three separate sets of Finck twins appearing on the show today--and just minutes to air, she’s wailing so loudly the production assistants jam fingers in their ears. Read More
