Forrest Sawyer
| Forrest Sawyer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
April 19, 1949 Lakeland, Florida, United States |
| Education | B.A. in Eastern Philosophy and World Religion and M.A. in Education, University of Florida |
| Occupation |
WAGA-TV news anchor (1980-1985) CBS Morning News anchor (1985-1987) ABC News and NBC News anchor |
| Years active | 1980–present |
Forrest Sawyer (born April 19, 1949) is an American broadcast journalist. Sawyer worked 11 years with ABC News, where he frequently anchored ABC World News Tonight and Nightline and reported for all ABC News broadcasts. He anchored the award-winning prime-time newsmagazines "Day One" and "Turning Point" He recorded exclusives from all over the globe, and earned numerous awards for his reports and documentaries, including Emmy Awards in 1992, 1993, and 1994. He left ABC News in 1999 to become a news anchor for both NBC and its cable counterpart, MSNBC, where he was a regular substitute for Brian Williams as anchor for The News with Brian Williams. He left NBC News in 2005 to become founder and president of Freefall Productions, where he produces documentaries and serves as a media strategist and guest lecturer.
Sawyer was born and reared in Lakeland, Florida, where he graduated from Kathleen High School. He was a member of Alpha Tau Omega at the University of Florida, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in Eastern Philosophy and World Religions and a Master's degree in Education.
After starting in radio, Sawyer was invited to host a program called "World in Review" broadcast statewide on Georgia's Public Television Network. World events in the news each week were looked at in depth by a panel of academic experts. The news director of Atlanta's CBS outlet saw how talented Forrest Sawyer was and hired him. Forrest was still full-time at his radio job. Sawyer moved into commercial television with Atlanta's WAGA-TV, a CBS affiliate (currently a Fox owned-and-operated station) from 1980 to 1985. While at WAGA, he shared a Peabody Award in 1982, for Paradise Saved, a documentary on Cumberland Island. Sawyer, Don Smith, and photographer George Gentry were cited for a documentary in which viewers were "treated to a quality of visual beauty not often seen on television and, at the same time, were informed, enlightened, and challenged concerning the problems of retaining a great natural heritage and a diminishing resource—the unspoiled beauty of the Atlantic Coast."
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