Diane Sawyers' interview with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords set to air on Nov. 14

ABC News' Diane Sawyer sat down with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and her husband Mark Kelly this past week to talk about her new memior and the January shootings in Arizona. The interview will air next Monday and will "document the couple’s courtship, marriage, and extraordinary careers in public service.”

Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Diane Sawyer, Tina Brown and more at DVF Awards

Hillary Clinton accepts the first ever "Inspiration Award" at the 2nd annual Diller-von Furstenberg Awards.

Farewell Madam Speaker....

“What’s really important is, for women in politics and government, to understand the gratitude we have to those who went before and the responsibility to those who come after. I would want women to know that whatever the struggle, it was worth it, and whatever the risk, it was worth it.”

- Nancy Pelosi stated in an interview today with Diane Sawyer, her first after the 2010 midterm elections

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.