

Ashleigh I know because it's in many ways it's a very small swimming pool, this business. "I worked for many years - even longer - with Dan Abrams. Chris Cuomo, host of Cuomo after his high-profile CNN exit, "and I worked together for many, many years at ABC," she says. We're all veterans from various networks."Īnd so are the other stars of the network that she's joining at NewsNation. we all know how to roll with the punches. There probably be a lot of bugs we'll be working out in the first few weeks.

"It's a brand new set, new control room, new newsroom. "We're going to just hit the ground running," Vargas says. Promo images of her have been popping up in places even she wasn't expecting - and she officially has show swag. The finishing touches have been put on her new set of the Chicago-based cable network's New York studio. Being able to build that cable news network from the ground up."Ī post shared by Elizabeth Vargas team of producers, bookers and writers - or as she calls them the "huge brain behind the show" - have been hired. "I'd always sort of romanticized what it must have been like to be at CNN, for example, back when it first started and nobody knew what CNN was. Plus, "there's something really unique and interesting about being involved in a brand new cable news network at the very beginning," she says of the cable startup. "I can't resist having a front-row seat to historic presidential elections, the war in Ukraine, tensions with China, tensions boiling over the Middle East," she says. Vargas says the "historic news cycle" was the lure to do the newscast of record five days a week. She's since hosted Fox's America's Most Wanted, the syndicated iCrime and Partnership to End Addiction podcast, Heart of the Matter, as well as worked on documentaries. The Emmy-winning journalist's career includes over two decades with ABC News, where she co-anchored 20/20 and World News Tonight and was news anchor on Good Morning America before leaving in 2018 to pursue new ventures. I have been since I first got into this business." "It's in my blood as they say," the new host of NewsNation's Elizabeth Vargas Reports, which debuts April 3, tells Yahoo Entertainment. (Photo: NewsNation)Įlizabeth Vargas is back to delivering the nightly news. Elizabeth Vargas is back to delivering the nightly news.
