Diane Sawyer
Via the New York Post:
ABC's "World News" anchor Charlie Gibson is retiring -- and will be replaced by "Good Morning America" anchor Diane Sawyer in January.
ABC has now confirmed the move.
Sawyer, 63, now becomes the second woman to anchor an evening newscast-- joining Katie Couric, who's been anchoring the "CBS Evening News" since September 2006.
Gibson, 66, has anchored "World News" since May 2006, when he replaced Elizabeth Vargas and Bob Woodruff, who'd been severely injured by a roadside bomb in Iraq four months before.
He will anchor "World News" through the end of the year.
There's no word, yet, on how this will affect "Good Morning America," co-anchored by Chris Cuomo and Robin Roberts.
"It has not been an easy decision to make," Gibson said in an e-mail to staffers. "This has been my professional home for almost 35 years."
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