Some surprises from ABC with Gibson’s retirement.
Charles Gibson will step down as news anchor on ABC television’s “World News” and will be replaced by Diane Sawyer beginning in January, ABC News said on Wednesday. Sawyer’s promotion means two of the three big U.S. network nightly newscasts will be in the hands of women anchors. Katie Couric heads up “CBS Evening News.” Sawyer, most recently a host of ABC’s “Good Morning America” show, was a pioneer among women in American broadcast television news, becoming the first woman to co-anchor the top-rated “60 Minutes” news magazine on CBS before joining ABC News in 1989. – From Reuters