What Media Bias ? From Liberal Loon to Liberal Crackpot: Sawyer to Replace Retiring Gibson
ABC News: Gibson retiring, Sawyer will be anchor
By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer
NEW YORK – Charles Gibson is retiring as at the end of the year and Diane Sawyer will replace him in January as anchor of ABC’s “World News,” the network said.
Gibson, 66, said he had been planning to retire at the end of 2007 but events compelled him to stay. He was named anchor following the death of Peter Jennings and the wartime injury of Bob Woodruff in 2006. He’s been at ABC News for 35 years and says he plans to continue as an occasional contributor.