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It's Stephanopoulos vs. Cuomo to Replace Sawyer

The two are the leading candidates for 'Good Morning America'

Oct 24, 09 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Diane Sawyer's impending departure for ABC's evening news leaves two top contenders for her post at Good Morning America: George Stephanopoulos and Chris Cuomo. Stephanopoulos has the edge, writes Howard Kurtz, because he's got the bigger name and has performed well as host of This Week. But he has one... More »

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ABC • Good Morning America • Robin Roberts • George Stephanopoulos • network television • Diane Sawyer • Chris Cuomo • morning TV

 ABC's John Stossel 
 Jumps Ship for Fox 

20/20 anchor joins fellow transplants Chris Wallace, Brit Hume

Sep 10, 09 2:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - 20/20 anchor John Stossel is leaving ABC for Fox News and the Fox Business Channel, Mediabistro reports. The move is yet another shakeup for ABC—Stossel’s co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas is a frontrunner to replace Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America. Stossel, a frequent guest on Fox, will... More »

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television • Fox Business Network • Fox News • Good Morning America • anchor • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • Chris Wallace • Brit Hume • John Stossel • Elizabeth Vargas • 20/20



 I Despise Kate: Jon 


Says he didn't leave her for girlfriend

Sep 8, 09 11:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a Good Morning America interview today, Jon Gosselin didn't hide his feelings about estranged wife Kate. "I can't sit on the sofa with that woman," he said, explaining that their segments of Jon & Kate Plus 8 are filmed separately. "I despise (her) because she's not... More »

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entertainment • divorce • Good Morning America • celebrity divorces • celebrity interview • Jon and Kate Plus 8 • Jon Gosselin • Kate Gosselin • Deanna Hummel • Hailey Glassman • Kate Major • Jon Gosselin interview

(Newser) - Diane Sawyer finally has the job she’s been waiting for, Rebecca Dana writes for the Daily Beast: “anchor of World News, the once towering, now considerably diminished evening broadcast.” But her renewed rivalry with Katie Couric and her struggle to hold on to Charles Gibson’s ratings... More »

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Katie Couric • Good Morning America • CBS News • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • news anchor • CBS Evening News • Charles Gibson • David Westin • World News

OPINION

Why Sawyer Will Be
Better Than Couric


Sep 2, 09 4:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Diane Sawyer as the host of ABC’s World News, two of the three network nightly newscasts will be anchored by women. But Sawyer is likely to have a smoother time than Katie Couric did, writes Joshua Alston for Newsweek. For one, Sawyer will benefit from Couric’s trailblazing:... More »

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Katie Couric • Good Morning America • Diane Sawyer • Charles Gibson

Charles Gibson to Leave ABC's World News

Diane Sawyer will take over as nightly news anchor in January

Sep 2, 09 11:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Charles Gibson will step down as ABC’s World News anchor at year's end, and Diane Sawyer will take the top slot, Broadcasting & Cable reports. In an email to the staff, Gibson explains that he had earlier hoped to retire from his post at Good Morning America in 2007,... More »

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ABC • Good Morning America • ABC News • Diane Sawyer • Charles Gibson

 Neeson 'Taking Each 
 Day as It Comes' 

Actor talks for the first time about wife's death

Aug 26, 09 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Liam Neeson and his boys are “taking each day as it comes,” he tells ABC. In his first interview since wife Natasha died in March, Neeson says his two sons, ages 13 and 12, are “getting along as best they can." The actor says he's "... More »

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Good Morning America • brain injuries • traumatic brain injury • Liam Neeson • Natasha Richardson • hematoma

 Sotomayor 'Tough 
 as Nails': Brother 

Calls them 'derogatory' and 'off-base,' praises sister in interview

Jun 10, 09 11:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor’s brother considers criticism of his sister “insulting, derogatory, off-base," the Supreme Court nominee's only sibling tells Good Morning America. “Angry is just the beginning” of how he feels about the attacks, Juan Sotomayor said, calling Sonia a “wonderful woman” and “the perfect... More »

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racism • Good Morning America • US Supreme Court • interview • Sonia Sotomayor • Juan Sotomayor

 Face Transplant 
 Patient Forgives 
 Shooter 

Connie Culp still thinks about how she used to look, she says

May 8, 09 10:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The woman who had the nation's first face transplant still thinks about how she looked before her husband shot her in a failed murder-suicide attempt in 2004—but she forgives him, she said in an interview today with Good Morning America. It was the smell of soap that made Connie... More »

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Good Morning America • face transplant • Connie Culp

 Bristol Touts Abstinence;
 Levi Calls Unrealistic 

Contradicts earlier comment; says Tripp 'love of my life'

May 6, 09 9:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - On a tour with a group battling teen pregnancy, Bristol Palin made a stop on Good Morning America, calling abstinence “realistic"—thus contradicting an earlier comment, the New York Daily News reports. “Abstinence is the only way that you can effectively, 100%, full-proof way to prevent pregnancy,... More »

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Good Morning America • abstinence • teen pregnancy • Sarah Palin • Bristol Palin • Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston


 Sperm Donor 
 Isn't Octu-Dad: 
 Suleman 

Man: Nadya said she had ovarian cancer

Feb 23, 09 10:50 AM CST
(Newser) - The man who appeared on ABC's Good Morning America today as the possible dad of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets didn’t father any of her children, Suleman told Us Magazine. Dennis Beaudoin’s “not lying. He went to the doctor with me once,” she said. “It didn’... More »

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Good Morning America • father • paternity test • sperm donors • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Dennis Beaudoin

 'Octu-Dad' 
 Bares Mom's 
 Breast Stunt 

Sperm donor believes Suleman was still married when they dated

Feb 22, 09 5:42 PM CST
(Newser) - A sperm donor who believes he fathered all of Nadya Suleman's octuplets said he thinks she was still married when they started dating and she asked him for sperm, reports the Huffington Post. They had been seeing each other just weeks when she took a sample of sperm he had... More »

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Oprah Winfrey • Good Morning America • sperm donors • multiple births • octuplets • Nadya Suleman • Ed Doud

 Fake Holocaust Author on GMA 

Rosenblat makes first TV appearance since scandal

Feb 18, 09 7:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Holocaust memoir faker Herman Rosenblat appears on Good Morning America today in his first TV appearance since his downfall, Gawker reports. A leaked video of Rosenblat being interviewed made it onto YouTube last night, and shows the story he’s trying to spin: that he convinced himself he was the... More »

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Holocaust • Good Morning America • memoir • fake memoirs • Herman Rosenblat • Roma Rosenblat

Oprah: 'I Could Be Senator, I'm Just Not Interested'

Winfrey 'amused' that Blago considered her

Jan 26, 09 1:06 PM CST
(Newser) - Oprah was “amused” by the news that Rod Blagojevich had considered naming her to Obama’s Senate seat—but would not have been interested, ABC News reports. “Absolutely not,” Winfrey said in an interview this morning, citing the demands of managing her media empire. “I think... More »

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Barack Obama • Oprah Winfrey • Illinois • Good Morning America • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • political appointment

 Blago Wanted Oprah for Senate 

Kicks off media blitz
as his impeachment trial begins in Illinois

Jan 26, 09 9:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich considered handing Barack Obama’s Senate seat to Oprah Winfrey, he told Good Morning America today in an appearance made while boycotting his impeachment trial, which starts today. "She seemed to be someone who had helped Barack Obama in a significant way to become president," Blagojevich... More »

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Senate • corruption • impeachment • Oprah Winfrey • trial • Illinois • Good Morning America • governor • Rod Blagojevich • Diane Sawyer • Senate seat

Christian School Axes Hard-Driving 100-0 Coach

Coach defended team's 100-0 blowout against learning disabled team

Jan 26, 09 2:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The coach of a Dallas high school girls basketball team that trounced a rival 100-0 has been fired, reports the Dallas Morning News. The Covenant School coach was canned after posting a message on a youth basketball internet site disagreeing with his school's apology for the cagers' massacre of a... More »

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CBS • basketball • ABC • Good Morning America • Today show • Dallas Academy • The Covenant School

 Cindy Cries 
 'Sexism' in 
 Palin Uproar 

McCain rips media, can't recall Palin's 'whining' zinger at Clinton

Sep 3, 08 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cindy McCain "absolutely" believes sexism is behind the media scrutiny of Sarah Palin, the beer heiress told ABC's Good Morning America, complaining that the Palin coverage is "insulting" and "outlandish." McCain, however, said she didn't remember Palin deriding Clinton's "whine about that excess criticism" as... More »

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Hillary Clinton • sexism • Good Morning America • Cindy McCain • media bias • Sarah Palin

Study: Breast Self-Exams Don't Improve Cancer Survival

They increase biopsies of benign lumps

Jul 16, 08 11:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Breast self-examinations, long recommended to women to detect early signs of breast cancer, serve no purpose, according to a review of the latest research. WebMD reports that 10-year studies of 388,500 women in Russia and China showed no improvement in survival rates from the self-exams, but revealed an added... More »

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breast cancer • American Cancer Society • Good Morning America • Robin Roberts • breast self examination • Cochrane Library • Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation • biopsies

 Cynthia Nixon:
 I Survived
 Breast Cancer 

'Sex and the City' star comes clean about her battle 2 years ago

Apr 16, 08 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - "Sex and the City" actress Cynthia Nixon quietly fought breast cancer two years ago while performing on Broadway, she revealed for the first time yesterday. "I didn't really want to make it public while I was going through it. I didn't want paparazzi at the hospital," the... More »

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breast cancer • New York • Sex and the City • Good Morning America • radiation • Cynthia Nixon • lumpectomy • Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation

CBS in Talks
to Outsource
News to CNN

Deal would mark watershed for mother
of network news

Apr 8, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - CBS, the network of Ed Murrow and Walter Cronkite that is widely credited with inventing television news, is considering outsourcing some of its news gathering activities to CNN, according to the New York Times. No deal is imminent but talks are reportedly taking place at the highest level at... More »

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Time Warner • NBC • Katie Couric • CBS • Dan Rather • CNN • Good Morning America • CBS News • ABC News • Today show • television news • CBS Evening News • The Early Show • TNS Media Intelligence

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