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Elizabeth Vargas is the first Latina ever to anchor a major network news show. She lives in Manhattan with her singer /songwriter husband, Marc Cohn, and their 3-year-old son, Zachary, who is in a pre-nursery two days a week. Born in New Jersey, Elizabeth spent much of her youth in Germany, where her dad—a career Army officer of Puerto Rican descent—was stationed. She began her own career on the campus TV station at the University of Missouri. Jobs followed in Chicago, Reno (her parents’ current home) and Phoenix. Her position as the
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The story: Elizabeth Vargas and Marc Cohn were married on July 20, 2002, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Ms. Vargas is an Emmy Award-winning reporter and news anchor who can be seen on
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Elizabeth Vargas has the kind of lifestyle that makes a whirling dervish look lazy by comparison. Since the late 1980s she has been crisscrossing the globe in pursuit of the next big story, traveling to war-torn areas like Iraq and Cambodia as well as to the Hurricane-ravaged U.S. Gulf Coast. "That's the most important thing, being where the news is happening," she says. "I want to be where the action is." That determined spirit has helped make Elizabeth one of television's most respected journalists.
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Elizabeth Vargas, who founded the VargasGirls, Originally started her career as a choir singer at her Grandmothers Private Church Academy in Missouri. She then moved to Washington and joined a high school choir. In 1996 Elizabeth enrolled at Cornish College of the arts www.cornish.edu to study with Adjunct Accoc. Professor Beth Winter, Assoc. Professor Margie Pos and Adjunct Accoc. Professor Jay Clayton.
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During an exclusive interview with President Bush on the February 28 broadcast of ABC's World News Tonight, co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas repeated White House distortions and uncritically accepted Bush's answers -- even though some were demonstrably false. Vargas echoed the White House line -- which, as Media Matters for America has noted, is not credible -- that Bush "doesn't read the polls." She ignored a House Select Committee's criticism of the White House on its response to Hurricane Katrina despite using that same report to question Bush during the interview, even though the report's findings contradicted Bush's claim that the "problem that happened in Katrina" was that the White House lacked "good, solid information from people who were on the ground." Vargas ... omitted the key distinction that a Dubai company seeking to take over operations at port terminals at six major U.S. ports is state-owned -- an omission that allowed Bush to suggest that anti-Arab sentiments were the source of criticisms of the deal rather than concerns with national security. Finally, Vargas's interview ignored a number of current issues, including warrantless domestic spying and the Plame investigation -- despite her having found the time to ask Bush: "What do you think you were put on this Earth to do?"
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Missouri Journalism Graduate Gets ABC Anchor Spot Missouri School of Journalism graduate Elizabeth Vargas was picked Monday as one of two anchors to replace Peter Jennings on ABC's evening newscast, "World News Tonight." Vargas, 43, will join Bob Woodruff to replace Jennings, who died of lung cancer in early Aug.. The announcement makes the duo the first co-anchors of an evening newscast since "CBS Evening News" was hosted by Dan Rather and Connie Chung. Vargas will remain co-host of ABC's "20/20." [More]
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