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<html> <head> <title>World News Tonight</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style><script type="text/javascript" src="/sortable.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css" /> </head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0> <tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" 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<td><a href="/people/132/000024060/">James Bamford</a></td> <td><center>Author</center></td> <td align=right><tt>15-Sep-1946</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Puzzle Palace</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/244/000055079/">David Brinkley</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Jul-1920</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>11-Jun-2003</tt></td> <td>The Huntley-Brinkley Report</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/893/000208269/">Michael Clemente</a></td> <td><center>Film/TV Producer</center></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Feb-1956</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Senior VP for News, Fox News Channel</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/528/000049381/">Catherine Crier</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Nov-1954</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>The Crier Report on Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/064/000172545/">Linda Douglass</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>?</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Former journalist, Obama spokeswoman</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/808/000101505/">Charles Gibson</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Mar-1943</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Good Morning America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/537/000049390/">Tom Jarriel</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Dec-1934</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ABC News correspondent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/310/000022244/">Peter Jennings</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Jul-1938</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Aug-2005</tt></td> <td>Former anchor, ABC World News Tonight</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/479/000105164/">Terry Moran</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>9-Dec-1959</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>ABC White House Correspondent</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/358/000166857/">Michele Norris</a></td> <td><center>Radio Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>7-Sep-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>NPR host, All Things Considered</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/311/000022245/">Frank Reynolds</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>29-Nov-1923</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Jul-1983</tt></td> <td>Former ABC News anchor</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/533/000049386/">Max Robinson</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>1-May-1939</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>20-Dec-1988</tt></td> <td>Co-Anchor of World News Tonight</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/698/000024626/">Diane Sawyer</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>22-Dec-1945</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Good Morning America</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/818/000025743/">George Stephanopoulos</a></td> <td><center>TV Personality</center></td> <td align=right><tt>10-Feb-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Bill Clinton's communications director</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/560/000351504/">A. B. Stoddard</a></td> <td><center>Columnist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>c. 1967</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Columnist for The Hill</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/660/000277826/">Richard Threlkeld</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>30-Nov-1937</tt></td> <td align=right><tt>13-Jan-2012</tt></td> <td>CBS and ABC News Correspondent, 1965-98</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/715/000110385/">Elizabeth Vargas</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>6-Sep-1962</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Anchor, World News Tonight</td> </tr> <tr> <td><a href="/people/716/000110386/">Bob Woodruff</a></td> <td><center>Journalist</center></td> <td align=right><tt>18-Aug-1961</tt></td> <td align=right><tt> </tt></td> <td>Co-Anchor, World News Tonight</td> </tr> </table> Do you know something we don't? <a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=49385" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a> Copyright ©2016 Soylent Communications </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"><div class="contentf"><center><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a> <a style="color: #0000ff" href="http://mapper.nndb.com/maps/669/000000669/"><img src="http://mapper.nndb.com/t/669/669/s669.jpg" width=128> Enron Board political contributions</a> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</center></div> <div class="contentf"><center>BibliographiesNNDB has added thousands of bibliographies for people, organizations, schools, and general topics, listing more than 50,000 books and 120,000 other kinds of references. 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