She later became a correspondent mainly for Dateline NBC, and also served as a substitute anchor for Today and the weekend editions of NBC Nightly News. In 1993, Vargas joined NBC News as a correspondent for Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric. She is versatile.' Vargas left WBBM-TV in 1993. She could do interviews, and do hour-long specials that make you think, and then she'll do a great interview with P. After three years there, she moved to Chicago to work at CBS station WBBM-TV, where Phyllis McGrady, a senior vice president at ABC, said of her: 'Elizabeth is one of the most flexible talents I've ever worked with. Career 1984–1993: Career beginnings Īfter college, Vargas worked at Reno's CBS affiliate KTVN, before moving to Phoenix as a lead reporter for then- ABC affiliate KTVK-TV. Former advisors spoke well of her competency in her journalism work on campus Rod Gelatt, former KOMU news director, noted that she was the first student to ever fill in for him as moderator of the station's Missouri Forum public affairs program and Kent Collins, chairman of the university's journalism faculty, remembered her 'aggressive and energetic' work ethic.

Vargas enrolled at the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1980 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1984, having served as a student reporter at KOMU-TV and a student editor at KBIA. Vargas graduated from an American high school in Heidelberg, where she realized her passion for journalism. Vargas then spent much of her youth moving from post to post in Germany, Belgium, and the United States. army captain and moved the family to Okinawa when she was four years old.

She has two siblings, Amy and Christopher, who both work in tech in Silicon Valley. Army from Puerto Rico, and an Irish-American mother, Anne Vargas, a part-time English teacher. In 2006 Vargas was co-anchor of World News Tonight alongside ABC News journalist Bob Woodruff.Įlizabeth Anne Vargas was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the daughter of an Italian-Spanish father, Rafael 'Ralf' Vargas, a colonel in the U.S. She is also a news anchor for NewsNation, where she hosts Elizabeth Vargas Reports currently based in New York City. She began her new position on May 28, 2018, after being an anchor of ABC's television newsmagazine 20/20 and ABC News specials for the previous 14 years. Elizabeth Anne Vargas (born September 6, 1962) is an American television journalist who is the lead investigative reporter/documentary anchor for A&E Networks, and the host for Fox's revival of America's Most Wanted.

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