Forrest Sawyer

Forrest Sawyer born April 19 1949 is an American broadcast journalist Sawyer worked 11 years with ABC News where he frequently anchored ABC World News Tonight and Nightline and reported for all ABC News broadcasts He anchored the newsmagazines Day One and Turning Point He recorded stories from all over the globe and earned awards for his reports and documentaries including Emmy Awards in 1992 1993 and 1994 He left ABC News in 1999 to become a news anchor for both NBC and its cable counterpart MSNBC where he was a regular substitute for Brian Williams as anchor for The News with Brian Williams He left NBC News in 2005 to become founder and president of Freefall Productions where he produces documentaries and serves as a media strategist and guest lecturer