With Katie Couric going to Yahoo, Barbara Walters retiring from The View, and Chelsea Handler moving over to Netflix, this has been The Year of Powerful Women Leaving TV. Then, today, ABC announced that their World News anchor, Diane Sawyer, would be stepping down, too. What gives?
Thankfully, as ABC president James Goldston asserted, Sawyer’s not leaving television entirely, or even ABC. Instead, she’ll be “stepping aside” from World News to lead “new programming tackling big issues and extraordinary interviews,” according to Goldston.
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