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"Diane Sawyer will not be retiring from ABC World News Tonight, despite widely published reports claiming otherwise. The journalist was the subject of a New York Daily News article suggesting that Sawyer is mulling leaving network news to help care for her mother, who is allegedly suffering from a serious illness.   A supposed insider told the publication: &amp;quot;She has discussed with a few close friends and some people at ABC that she is seriously considering retiring. &amp;quot;She said she&amp;#039;ll be ready to hang it up not long down the road. She loves work and what she does and has endless energy, but she&amp;#039;s overwhelmed with personal problems and she is thinking about leaving to take care of her family.&amp;quot; The report has drawn a swift denial from ABC, with a network spokesperson insisting that Sawyer has no plans to leave her post on ABC World News Tonight. &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a bunch of nonsense as we made clear and Diane&amp;#039;s plans for 2013 haven&amp;#039;t changed in any way,&amp;quot; the ABC representative commented. Sawyer has been the anchor of ABC World News Tonight since 2009. She previously hosted ABC&amp;#039;s 20/20 and Good Morning America. The news anchor first joined ABC News in 1989 after a successful tenure on CBS&amp;#039;s 60 Minutes.  Watch Diane Sawyer interview Whitney Houston below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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