Forrest DeWitt Sawyer (born April 19, 1949) is an American former broadcast journalist best known for his 11 years with ABC News, where he anchored ABC World News Tonight Saturday and frequently substituted for Ted Koppel on Nightline. During that time he earned Emmy Awards in 1992, 1993, and 1994 while with ABC-TV's Day One and Nightline. He left ABC News to become a news anchor for both NBC and its cable counterpart, MSNBC, where he was an occasional substitute for Brian Williams as anchor for The News with Brian Williams. He left NBC News in 2005 to become founder and president of Freefall Productions, where he produces documentaries and serves as a media strategist and guest lecturer.
Recovering after an air-to-ground helicopter accident into a lake in northeast Tanzania [December 12, 2007].
Journalist and former ABC News anchor.
