Forrest Sawyer Biography
Forrest Sawyer is a radio journalist in the United States. Sawyer worked for ABC News for 11 years, anchoring ABC World News Tonight and Nightline and reporting for all ABC News shows.
Forrest Sawyer Age
He was born on April 19, 1949, in Lakeland, Florida, United States of America. Sawyer is 74 years old as of April 2023.
Forrest Sawyer Education
He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Eastern Philosophy and World Religions as well as a Master of Education from the University of Florida.
Forrest Sawyer Wife
Sawyer has not gone public with his relationship. However, It is not known whether he is married, engaged, divorced, or single.
Forrest Sawyer ABC News
Sawyer worked for ABC News for 11 years, anchoring ABC World News Tonight and Nightline and reporting for all ABC News shows. He was the host of the news magazines “Day One” and “Turning Point” He collected stories from all over the world and won Emmys for his reporting and documentaries in 1992, 1993, and 1994. He left ABC News in 1999 to work as a news anchor for both NBC and its cable rival, MSNBC, where he was a regular fill-in for Brian Williams as anchor of The News with Brian Williams. He left NBC News in 2005 to start Freefall Productions, where he produces documentaries and works as a media strategist and guest lecturer.
Forrest Sawyer Career
Sawyer began his career in radio, working as a newsman and news director at WAAB in Worcester for a short time in 1973, before leaving for a year or two to work as a newsman at WVBF in Boston. John Gallagher, a WAAB newsman, said Sawyer had the sharpest mind and quickest wit he’d ever seen in a radio newsman and could write the news and commentary as quickly as he could speak it. After a falling out with WAAB/WAAF owner George Gray, he moved to WVBF in Boston for a year before switching to television. (When he was dismissed or quit, he fled the WAAB studios in an emotional outburst, according to WAAB newsman Mike Marcy.
Sawyer was invited to anchor “World in Review” for Georgia Public Television, where a panel of academic specialists examined world events in the news each week. He was still working full-time at his radio job when the news director of Atlanta’s then-CBS station noticed how great he was and hired him. Sawyer transitioned to commercial television with Atlanta’s WAGA-TV, where he shared a Peabody Award in 1982 for Paradise Saved, a Cumberland Island documentary. Sawyer, Don Smith, and photographer George Gentry were noted 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.”
Sawyer and Maria Shriver were The CBS Morning News hosts from August 1985 to August 1986. Sawyer worked for CBS until 1987. In 1988, he joined ABC as the anchorman of ABC World News This Morning, and he also presented “World News Sunday” and “Day One.” In the early 1990s, he was the host of The Discovery Channel’s Justice Files. Sawyer was the first reporter to gain access to the KGB’s archives 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 frequent replacement anchor on the ABC News programs ABC World News Tonight and Nightline.
Sawyer acted as moderator in “The Debate,” a live episode of The West Wing devoted only to a debate between two imaginary presidential contenders. During April 2006, he was a guest speaker at the American Association of Community Colleges Conference in Long Beach, CA, and on May 11, 2007, he was the keynote speaker at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at a conference titled, Sawyer escaped a helicopter crash in late 2007 while making a documentary in Tanzania, where he sustained a significant knee injury before traveling kilometers with other survivors to safety. His most recent television appearances include hosting the CBS Evening News on July 19, 2008, and reporting the 2009 Frontline documentary “Ten Trillion and Counting.”
Forrest Sawyer’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars.
