Politicalgirl: Newsie Diane Sawyer

Source: ABC News / Diane Sawyer

It is hard to be politicalgirl and not be a newsie as well. What's a newsie? A newsie is a person that is a junkie for all things news. They log on to newspaper websites like nytimes.com and wsj.com a couple of times a day. They watch the latest opinion news on MSNBC, FOX, and CNN nightly. And they know all the Capital Hill correspondents and reporters by name.

So the news that Charlie Gibson was retiring and Diane Sawyer replacing him definitely sent a jolt up self-proclaimed newsie spines. Who would have ever guessed that women anchors would hold the majority in nightly news? I certainly did not, especially considering that Katie Couric has only been in the anchor seat for a little over 3 years, and has had a bit of a rocky start. Either way the news of Diane Sawyer's ascension to ABC News' top spot is something to be admired by politicalgirls everywhere.