“Good for Diane Sawyer,” said Michelle Cottle in The New Republic. The co-host of ABC’s Good Morning America will take over the ABC World News Tonight anchor chair from Charlie Gibson when Gibson retires in January. But kudos to CBS News anchor Katie Couric, too, for “blazing this trail and taking all the abuse that the first solo female anchor was destined to take.” Sawyer won’t get near the same level of “scrutiny—or abuse.”
That’s true, but not just because Couric’s already bloodied her hand punching through the “glass ceiling,” said Joshua Alston in Newsweek. Sawyer will be able to learn from Couric’s mistakes, but she’s also a much more “seasoned newswoman,” with a “gravitas”—and a “grave voice”—that Couric lacks. “Couric cut her teeth at Today”; Sawyer got her start working in Nixon’s press shop.
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