Elizabeth Vargas

Elizabeth Vargas (born September 6, 1962 in Paterson, New Jersey) is a television journalist, currently co-anchor of ABC's television newsmagazine 20/20 and anchor of ABC News Specials. From January 2006 to May 2006, she was co-anchor of ABC's flagship broadcast World News Tonight, anchoring much of the broadcast alone after co-anchor Bob Woodruff's injury in Iraq. Image File history File links EVargas. ... Image File history File links EVargas. ... This article is about the day of the year. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... The skyline of Paterson, New Jersey, showing the canyon of the Passaic River in the foreground. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) is a television and radio network in the United States. ... A newsmagazine, sometimes called news magazine, is a usually weekly magazine featuring articles on current events. ... 20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. ... ABC News is a division of the American Broadcasting Company television and radio networks (ABC). ... Bob Woodruff with fellow World News Tonight co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas Robert William Bob Woodruff (born 1961) is an American television journalist. ...

Vargas was born to a Puerto Rican father and an Irish-American mother; her father was then a Colonel in the U.S. Army. She spent her youth moving from base to base in Germany, Belgium and Japan. Irish population density in the United States, 1872. ... Colonel is a military rank of a commissioned officer, with the corresponding ranks existing in nearly every country in the world. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ...

Vargas graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she made her debut broadcast as a reporter/anchor for KOMU-TV. Journalism is a discipline of collecting, analyzing, verifying, and presenting information gathered regarding current events, including trends, issues and people. ... The University of Missouri System is the designated public research and land-grant university system of the state of Missouri. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ... A ships or boats anchor is used to attach the vessel to the bottom at a specific point. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ...

Vargas spent four years as a reporter and anchor for WBBM-TV. Phyllis McGrady, a senior vice president at ABC, said of Vargas: "Elizabeth is one of the most flexible talents I've ever worked with. She could do interviews, and do hour-long specials that make you think, and then she'll do a great interview with P. Diddy. She is versatile." WBBM-TV, CBS2 Chicago is the Chicago-based owned and operated station of the CBS television network and the networks flagship station in the Central Time Zone. ... P. Diddy Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969 aka P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Puffy Combs) is an African-American record producer, entrepreneur, and rapper. ...

Bob Woodruff and Elizabeth Vargas

Vargas is the first woman to anchor an evening newscast in the U.S. since Connie Chung. Vargas is the first woman of Puerto Rican and Irish American heritage to be named a network nightly news anchor. She is said to be particularly proud of an ABC special report in which she questioned why the Laci Peterson case merited more attention than two other similar cases, one involving a black woman and the other involving a Hispanic woman. Another story she did based on the book The Da Vinci Code and the role of Mary Magdalene, created a religious debate. Vargas stated that for centuries Mary Magdalene has been portrayed as a prostitute by the church. In her story, she also questioned the role of women within the church. In 1999, she won an Emmy Award for her coverage of the Elian Gonzalez story, and in 1998 she was nominated for an Emmy Award for her 20/20 investigation into the wrongful conviction of Betty Tyson. Image File history File links Abc_woodruff_vargas_3. ... Image File history File links Abc_woodruff_vargas_3. ... Bob Woodruff with fellow World News Tonight co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas Robert William Bob Woodruff (born 1961) is an American television journalist. ... Connie Chung at the announcement of the start of her CNN show, Connie Chung Tonight Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (Chinese: 宗毓華; Pinyin: Zōng Yùhuá; born August 20, 1946) is a television newswoman. ... Laci Peterson Laci Peterson, born Laci Denise Rocha (May 4, 1975 – December, 2002), was last seen alive on December 23, 2002 and became the subject of one of the most discussed missing person cases in recent U.S. history. ... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ... The Hispanic world Hispanic (Spanish: Hispano) is a term denoting a derivation from Spain, her people and culture. ... For the movie, see The Da Vinci Code (film) The Da Vinci Code is a mystery novel by American author Dan Brown and published in 2003 by Doubleday Fiction. ... Mary Magdalene is described, both in the canonical New Testament and in the New Testament apocrypha, as a devoted disciple of Jesus. ... Prostitution is the sale of sexual services (typically manual stimulation, oral sex, sexual intercourse, or anal sex) for cash or other kind of return, generally indiscriminately with many persons. ... An Emmy Award. ... Elián González (born December 6, 1993) was a young boy when his mother escaped from Cuba (which has strict laws forbidding emigration) and floated to freedom in Florida. ... An Emmy Award. ...

In April 2005, as Peter Jennings was receiving chemotherapy for his lung cancer, she and Charles Gibson temporarily filled in for him on World News Tonight until his death. 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in April • 26: Augusto Roa Bastos • 24: Ezer Weizman • 23: Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen • 23: John Mills • 16: Marla Ruzicka • 9: Andrea Dworkin • 6: Prince Rainier III • 5: Dale Messick • 5: Saul Bellow • 2: Pope John... Peter Charles Archibald Ewart Jennings, CM (July 29, 1938 – August 7, 2005) was a Canadian-American lead news anchor for the ABC network from the 1980s to the 2000s. ... Chemotherapy is the use of chemical substances to treat disease. ... Lung cancer is a cancer of the lungs characterized by the presence of malignant tumours. ... Charles Gibson Charles (Charlie) Gibson (born March 9, 1943) is an American television journalist, best known as co-host of Good Morning America on ABC from January 1987 to May 1998 and from January 1999 to the present. ... ABC World News Tonight (often abbreviated as WNT) is the ABC television networks flagship evening news program. ...

Despite Katie Couric being the first named to anchor a evening newscast solo, Elizabath Vargas can be considered the first de facto woman solo evening news anchor given the fact that after Bob Woodruff's injury, Vargas had anchored almost every broadcast solo (although there was a brief period after Woodruff's injury where Vargas co-anchored WNT with either Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer) during her short tenture as "co-anchor" of WNT. Katie Couric with US military personnel at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia Katherine Anne Couric, better known as Katie Couric (born January 7, 1957) is an American media personality and the future anchorwoman and managing editor of CBS Evening News. ... De facto is a Latin expression that means in fact or in practice. It is commonly used as opposed to de jure (meaning by law) when referring to matters of law or governance or technique (such as standards), that are found in the common experience as created or developed without...

Elizabeth Vargas is married to Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter Marc Cohn, whom she met at the 1999 U.S. Open after being introduced by Andre Agassi. In 2003, the couple had their first child, son Zachary. In February 2006, the couple announced that Vargas is pregnant and expecting their second son, due in late summer. Cohn has two children, Max and Emily, from a previous marriage. Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Marc Cohn (born July 5, 1959 in Cleveland, Ohio) is a Jewish American singer-songwriter, best known for his song Walking In Memphis (often misattributed to Bruce Springsteen) from his self-titled 1991 album Marc Cohn. ... The United States Open tennis championships, commonly refered to as the U.S. Open (or as simply the Open in the U.S. only), is the fourth and final event of the Grand Slam tennis tournaments. ... Andre Kirk Agassi (born April 29, 1970, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is a former World No. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A pregnant woman Pregnancy is the process by which a mammalian female carries a live offspring from conception until it develops to the point where the offspring is capable of living outside the womb. ... For other senses of this word, see summer (disambiguation). ...

On May 23, 2006, Vargas announced her resignation from WNT. Gibson was then named sole anchor of the show, effective May 29, 2006, effectively replacing Vargas and her injured co-anchor Bob Woodruff. [1] Vargas cited her doctors' recommendation to cut back her schedule considerably due to her maternity leave, and her wish to spend more time with her new baby. She eventually will return to co-anchor 20/20 and ABC News specials. May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 20/20 is an American television newsmagazine broadcast on ABC since June 6, 1978. ...

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See also

• List of famous Puerto Ricans
• List of Irish-Americans

list of famous Puerto Ricans in alphabetical order by last names, where applicable. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

External link

• About.com Profile of Elizabeth Vargas, ABC World News Tonight Co-Anchor