Diane Sawyer

Diane Sawyer hosts the ABC morning news show Good Morning America. A graduate of Wellesley College (1967), Sawyer started in TV in Louisville, Kentucky, then became a press aide for the White House during the Nixon administration (she also assisted Nixon with his memoirs). She ended up at CBS in 1978, moving up the network ladder and eventually landing a gig alongside Mike Wallace on the news magazine 60 Minutes (1984-89) . She then jumped to ABC in 1989, co-hosting PrimeTime Live and 20/20 and, at one point, earning the distinction as the highest paid woman in American TV news. Sawyer built her reputation on tough investigative reports and interviews with world leaders and pop culture figures, and in 1999 she became an anchor for their daily show Good Morning America.

Extra credit: Sawyer is married to film and theatrical director Mike Nichols.