Elizabeth Vargas is co-anchor of ABC News' 20/20.
As an award-winning anchor and correspondent, Vargas has traveled the world covering breaking news stories, reporting in-depth investigations and conducting newsmaking interviews. During the historic Iraqi elections in December 2005, she reported extensively for World News Tonight from Baghdad on both civilian life in Iraq and American military involvement there. She has interviewed leaders from around the world including President Bush from the oval office in the White House.
Her international coverage has also sent her to Beslan, Russia, where she found stories of hope after rebels attacked a school and killed more than 300 people, over half of them children. She also reported from the Middle East for a special on the resurrection of Jesus; and reported from Cambodia on the plight of orphans and questionable international adoption practices there.
Vargas has also anchored ABC News' coverage of live, breaking news stories including the deaths of President Ronald Reagan and John F. Kennedy, Jr. and from the U.S. Gulf Coast, covering Hurricane Katrina's devastation. She won an Emmy in 2000 for Outstanding Instant Coverage of a News Story for anchoring live coverage of the Elian Gonzalez case.
Vargas was credited by The New York Times in November 2004 as reinvigorating the newsmagazine format with her "intellectually brave" reporting of an examination of the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard, a young man whose murder gained national attention as an anti-gay crime. In July 2003, she hosted In the Shadow of Laci Peterson, an ABC News special that examined the disappearances of several young women in northern California and why their stories failed to attract significant media attention. In November 2003, she anchored Jesus, Mary and Da Vinci, an hour investigating many theories raised in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code. Her February 2001 exclusive interview with the owners of two dogs that killed a San Francisco woman was so revealing, prosecutors in the case say it was critical to winning convictions against the couple.
Vargas was previously the anchor of World News Tonight Sunday and was also a frequent substitute anchor on Good Morning America. Previously a correspondent for 20/20 and Primetime Thursday and a co-anchor of Primetime Monday, Vargas joined ABC News from NBC News, where she was a correspondent and anchor, primarily for Dateline NBC and the Today show.
During her tenure at NBC, Vargas served as substitute co-anchor and news anchor for NBC News' Today show and as a substitute anchor for the weekend editions of NBC Nightly News. Vargas joined NBC News in 1993 as a correspondent for the NBC newsmagazine Now With Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric.
Vargas graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo., where she began her broadcasting career as a reporter/anchor for KOMU-TV.
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