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Forrest Sawyer an American broadcast journalist working for ABC News for 11 years and has frequently anchors ABC World News Tonight and Nightline and reports on all ABC News broadcasts. He as well served as the host of the news magazines “Day One” and “Turning Point.” He aired stories from all over the world and earned Emmys for his reports and documentaries in 1992, 1993, and 1994.
Forrest Sawyer Age
Sawyer was born on 9 April 1949 in Lakeland, Florida, United States.
Forrest Sawyer Career
Sawyer got invited to host a program called “World in Review” for Georgia Public Television, with a panel of academic experts examined world events in the news each week. Working as a full-time at his radio job at the time the news director of Atlanta’s then-CBS affiliate saw how talented he was and hired him. He joinned commercial television with Atlanta’s WAGA-TV, and shared a Peabody Award back in 1982 for Paradise Saved, a Cumberland Island documentary.
Sawyer, Don Smith, together with photographer George Gentry were known for a documentary that “treated viewers to a quality of visual beauty not often seen on television while also informing, enlightening, and challenging them about the problems of preserving a great natural heritage and a diminishing resource—the unspoiled beauty of the Atlantic Coast.”
Sawyer along with Maria Shriver sreved as anchors of The CBS Morning News as of August 1985 to August 1986. He served at CBS until 1987. He began working with ABC back in 1988 as the anchorman of ABC World News This Morning, and as well hosted “World News Sunday” and “Day One.” Back in the early 1990s, he was the host of The Discovery Channel’s Justice Files.
He served as a reporter at KGB’s files on Lee Harvey Oswald, and he filed history’s first live television report from a battlefield during the First Gulf War. Before leaving ABC and joining NBC, Sawyer worked as a regular substitute anchor on the ABC News programs ABC World News Tonight and Nightline.
He has received seven National Emmy Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Associated Press Award, an Ohio State Award, an Ark Award, and two American Psychological Association Awards in addition to his Peabody Award. Sawyer acted as moderator in “The Debate,” a live episode of The West Wing devoted solely to a debate between two fictitious presidential candidates.
He served as a guest speaker at the American Association of Community Colleges Conference in Long Beach, CA, in April 2006, and as ell as the keynote speaker at the University of California, Santa Barbara, on May 11, 2007, at a conference titled “The Future of Multi-Media Digital News and Cultural Networks.”
He as well known for having survived a helicopter crash in late 2007 while filming a documentary in Tanzania, having suffered a serious knee injury before hiking miles with other survivors to safety. He featured in anchoring the July 19, 2008 edition of the CBS Evening News and reporting the 2009 Frontline documentary “Ten Trillion and Counting,” which delves into the politics of the national debt.
Forrest Sawyer Net Worth
Sawyer has earns an annual estimated salary range of between $50,000-$100,000
Forrest Sawyer Net Worth
Sawyer hasn an estimated net worth range of between $500,000-$1 million
Forrest Sawyer Height and Weight
Sawyer stands tall at a height of 1.81m.
Forrest Sawyer Education
Sawyer enrolled and later earned his diploma from Kathleen High School. He was as well an Alpha Tau Omega member at the University of Florida, where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Eastern Philosophy and World Religions as well as a Master’s degree in Education.
Forrest Sawyer Family
Sawyer information regarding his family are publicly unavailable, this section will be updated as soon as thuis information is available.
Forrest Sawyer Wife
Sawyer is married to Amy Atkins, an American journalist and university professor.