ABC World News with Diane Sawyer

Weeknights, 6:30 p.m., ET

"ABC World News with Diane Sawyer" is the News division's flagship broadcast. With unparalleled reporting, "World News" provides the latest information and analysis of major events from around the country and the world. Anchored by Diane Sawyer, the broadcast draws upon an award-winning team of correspondents, producers and off-air reporters.

The program is complimented by a strong digital component available throughout the day on the "World News" webpage. The webpage contains "The World Newser" blog, where senior staff, correspondents and producers in the field post entries throughout the day. Most recently the webpage added a daily video element, "The Conversation." Posted each afternoon, "The Conversation" features Ms. Sawyer discussing the top story of the day with industry experts and ABC's top-notch beat reporters. "The Conversation" and the full "World News" broadcast are also available as podcasts via iTunes.

Ms. Sawyer began as anchor of "World News" in December 2009. One of the most respected journalists in the world, she has traveled the globe delivering in depth and breaking news reports and has conducted interviews with almost every major newsmaker of our time. Through her distinguished documentary work, Ms. Sawyer has also shed light on difficult and previously under-reported topics.

"World News'" in-depth coverage of domestic and international events is complemented by:

* "Your Money," a chronicle of excessive government expenditures
* Exclusive reporting by Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross and the ABC News Investigative Team
* "Changing Your Life," a weekly segment airing on Thursdays in which ABC's Senior Medical Editor, Dr. Richard Besser, boils new research studies and findings down to sensible and applicable changes people can make to their everyday lives to achieve a better, wiser and healthier life
* "Person of the Week," a weekly segment airing on Fridays highlighting a person who has made a difference to the world or the country or to a community. The series was a part of the broadcast from 1986 until 1998 and was reintroduced in 2003.

"ABC World News" is one of the most honored news programs in the world. The broadcast has won an Overseas Press Club Award for its coverage of the devastating Chinese earthquake. The broadcast took part in a 2007 Peabody Award that recognized a series of reports from Bob Woodruff on traumatic brain injuries in Iraq war veterans. In 2006 the program was recognized with three Emmy Awards for reports from the "Iraq: Where Things Stand" series and an investigation that exposed the presence of big money in politics during the 2004 campaign season. For two consecutive years, "World News" won the 2004 and 2005 Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast. In 2005 the broadcast won Emmy Awards for pieces on the Iraq war and the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The broadcast also won Emmys for segments related to September 11th coverage, and it was part of the ABC News effort recognized with a Peabody Award for its coverage of the September 11th attacks and their aftermath.