 Forrest Sawyer serves as an NBC News anchor and contributor for both the broadcast network and the 24-hour cable news network, MSNBC. At MSNBC, Sawyer is the chief substitute anchor for The News with Brian Williams. Additionally, Sawyer anchors breaking news for MSNBC and various NBC News programs including Dateline NBC and regularly hosted portions of MSNBC's Decision 2000 election coverage. In addition to his assignments with NBC and MSNBC, Sawyer has an agreement with Discovery Channel to work on a series of high-profile projects currently in development. Sawyer's relationship with the Discovery Channel began in June of 1999 when he hosted Twister Week, which featured live programs from Oklahoma educating viewers on the science of tornadoes. Sawyer also filed an exclusive hour-long report on America 's controversial assignment of Apache helicopters in Kosovo, Inside Task Force Hawk. Then in August, he anchored Shark Week and broadcast a live two-hour program from the Bikini Atoll in the South Pacific. Most recently, Sawyer served as the primary substitute anchor on ABC's Nightline and as substitute anchor for other ABC News programs including World News Tonight and Good Morning America. Sawyer also traveled to Katmandu , Nepal , for the first network coverage of the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster. Prior to that, he was anchor of the ABC newsmagazine Day One and an anchor of ABC News Saturday Night. He was also one of the anchors of Turning Point, another ABC primetime newsmagazine. In addition, Sawyer anchored World News Sunday and reported for Nightline and other ABC News broadcasts. As an anchor for Day One, Sawyer covered stories that took him all over the world. He flew to Vietnam to prepare a critically acclaimed, one-hour broadcast that reunited American and North Vietnamese survivors from the 1965 bloody Vietnam War battle of Ia Drang Valley. He also anchored special live coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing tragedy and the aftermath of the California earthquake. Sawyer has received numerous honors during his career, including the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, five National Emmy Awards, two Sigma Delta Chi Awards, two Edward R. Murrow Awards, an Associated Press Award, an Ohio State Award and two American Psychological Association Awards. Sawyer earned a B.A. degree in Eastern philosophy and world religions in 1971 and a Master of Education degree in 1976, both from the University of Florida in Gainesville .
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