Diane Sawyer to Emcee Peabody Awards

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ABC World News anchor Diane Sawyer will be the host of the 69th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony Monday, May 17, at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York. Sawyer will be the first media personality to emcee a second Peabody ceremony, having presided over the 56th annual awards in 1996. The Peabody’s will be announced March 31.

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