1. Charles Gibson

2. Younger Days  March 9, 1943  Evanston, IL  Moved to Washington D.C. at age 12  Sidwell Friends School  Princeton University, 1965

3. Career  1966 – 1970: News director for WLVA-TV and Radio in Lynchburg, Va.  1970 – 1973: anchor and reporter for WJLA-TV (then WMAL-TV), the ABC affiliate in Washington, D.C  1974: Joined Television New Inc.  1975 – 1977: ABC News Whitehouse Correspondent  1977 – 1981: Covered general assignment for ABC News  1981- 1987: Chief correspondent covering the House of Representatives  1987- 2006: Co-anchor for Good Morning America & Prime Time Thursday  2006 – Present: Anchor of World News Tonight

4. Achievements  Gibson won an Emmy for his hour-long "Primetime Thursday" investigation entitled "Columbia Final Mission."  The duPont-Columbia Award for the coverage of the death of Pope John Paul II, anchoring the network's coverage of the Pope's funeral and the election of Pope Benedict XVI.  The National Endowment for the Humanities named Mr. Gibson a National Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in 1973.  In April of 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Paul White Award from the Radio and Television News Directors of America.  He received the Fred Friendly First Amendment Award from Quinnipiac University in June 2008.

5. Memorable Assignments  Mr. Gibson has reported from the campus of Virginia Tech following the devastating school shooting.  Anchoring the morning broadcast on September 11, 2001, Mr. Gibson, along with Ms. Sawyer, began the network's award-winning coverage of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  In 2004 he was chosen to moderate the 90-minute town hall style debate between President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry that was watched by 47 million people around the country.

6. Work Cited  http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/News/story?id=1995736http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/News/story?id=1995736  http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/charles-gibson/195929http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/charles-gibson/195929  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gibsonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gibson  http://www.poptower.com/people/charles-gibson.htmhttp://www.poptower.com/people/charles-gibson.htm