Diane Sawyer Net Worth 2022/2023
Diane Sawyer is estimated to have a net worth of $85 million dollars at present. She has accumulated her net worth with her versatility in each field she has worked in.
Her primary source of earnings is from her journalism career.
| Year | 2022 | 2023 |
| Diane Sawyer Salary | $23 million | $23.5 million |
| Diane Sawyer Net Worth | $85 million | $93 million |
Diane Sawyer Salary 2022/2023
Diane Sawyer’s salary is $23 million every year and gets a monthly salary of $273,840.
Lila Diane Sawyer (born December 22, 1945) is an American television broadcast journalist best known for anchoring major programs on two networks, including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime newsmagazine.
She hosted CBS Morning and was the first female correspondent on 60 Minutes during her time at CBS News.
Prior to becoming a journalist, she worked on President Richard Nixon’s White House staff and assisted with his post-presidency memoirs.
She currently works for ABC News, where she produces documentaries and interview specials.
Diane Sawyer Biography
Diane Sawyer was born in Glasgow, Kentucky, to elementary school teacher Jean W. (née Dunagan) and county judge Erbon Powers “Tom” Sawyer.
Her ancestors are of English, Irish, Scots-Irish, and German descent. Linda, her older sister, is her only sibling. Her family relocated to Louisville shortly after her birth, where her father rose to local prominence as a Republican politician and community leader.
In 1969, he was the Jefferson County Judge/Executive of Kentucky when he was killed in a car accident on Louisville’s Interstate 64. E. P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park, located in Louisville’s Frey’s Hill neighborhood, is named in his honor.
Sawyer went to Seneca High School in Louisville’s Buechel neighborhood. She was the editor-in-chief of her high school yearbook, The Arrow, and was involved in a variety of artistic activities.
She was always conscious of being in the shadow of her sister, Linda. Diane, who was insecure and a loner as a teen, later said she found happiness by going off by herself or with a group of friends who called themselves “reincarnated transcendentalists” and reading Emerson and Thoreau down by a creek.
In her senior year of high school, in 1963, she won first place as a representative from the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the annual national America’s Junior Miss scholarship pageant.
She was victorious due to her poise in the final interview and her essay comparing the music of the North and South during the Civil War.
Sawyer was America’s Junior Miss from 1962 to 1965, touring the country to promote the Coca-Cola Pavilion at the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair.
Traveling around the country as America’s Junior Miss seemed terrifying at first, but it taught her to think on her feet and do so with poise and grace.
She graduated from Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1967. She was a member of the a cappella singing group the Wellesley College Blue Notes as well as the Phi Sigma Lecture Society.
She attended one semester of law school at the University of Louisville before turning to journalism.
Sawyer returned to Kentucky immediately after graduation and began working as a weather forecaster for WLKY-TV in Louisville.
Sawyer thought the weather was boring, so she would occasionally add quotes to make it more interesting. Finally, Sawyer was promoted to a general-assignment position, but this did not last long.
Sawyer moved to Washington, D.C., in 1970, and after being unable to find work as a broadcast journalist, she applied for positions in government offices.
She eventually became Jerry Warren’s (White House Deputy Press Secretary) assistant. Sawyer began by writing press releases and quickly advanced to other tasks such as drafting some of President Richard Nixon’s public statements.
Within a few months, she had advanced to the position of administrative assistant to White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler, and she eventually rose to the position of staff assistant to U.S. President Richard Nixon.
When John Dean testified before the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 about Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate coverup, Sawyer and Larry Speakes were assigned to Nixon’s lawyer J. Fred Buzhardt’s staff for a project to “prove” Dean was lying. Speakes later claimed that he had concluded that Dean had not lied and had informed Sawyer, but they persisted in their efforts.
Diane Sawyer Age
Diane Sawyer is 76 years of age as of 2022, she was born on December 22, 1945, in Glasgow, Kentucky, the United States of America. She celebrates her birthday every year with her family and close friends, her zodiac sign is Capricorn.
Diane Sawyer Husband
Sawyer had affairs with Frank Gannon, an aide to President Richard Nixon, and American diplomat Richard Holbrooke.
Mike Nichols, a film and theater director, producer, and actor, married her on April 29, 1988. They did not have any children.
Nichols’ previous marriages resulted in two daughters and a son. On November 19, 2014, he died at the age of 83.
Career timeline
1967–1970: WLKY-TV news and weather reporter and teacher in Louisville, Kentucky.
1970–1974: White House press aide
1974–1978: Literary assistant to President Richard Nixon
1978–1981: CBS reporter and correspondent
1981–1984: Morning with Charles Kuralt/The CBS Morning News co-anchor
1982–1984: CBS Early Morning News co-anchor
1984–1989: 60 Minutes correspondent
1989–1998: Primetime Live co-anchor
1998 – present: 20/20 correspondent
1998–2000: 20/20 co-anchor
January 18, 1999 – December 11, 2009: Good Morning America co-anchor
2000–2006: Primetime Thursday/Primetime Live/Primetime co-anchor
December 21, 2009 – August 27, 2014: ABC World News anchor
September, 2014–present: ABC News special contributor
Awards and Recognition
1987, received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
1997, inducted into the Television Hall of Fame.
2000, Daytime Emmy Award for excellence in morning programming.
2001, named one of the thirty most-powerful women in America by the Ladies’ Home Journal.
since 2004, frequently selected for the annual Forbes Magazine’s List of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women which reported that, between June 2005 and June 2008, she made approximately $12 million, solely from entertainment income.
2007, Emmy Award for outstanding news and documentary program achievement – programs and segments
2009, received a Peabody Award for her work on “A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains.”
2007, granted a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for “A Call to Action: Saving Our Children” segment on ABC News.
2010, won the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
2012, received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Brown University
2019, named a Disney Legend, an award given to those who’ve made an outstanding contribution to the legacy of Walt Disney.