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Elizabeth Vargas

American television journalist
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September 6, 1962, Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. (age 62)
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Elizabeth Vargas (born September 6, 1962, Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.) is an American television journalist best known as a coanchor of the ABC (American Broadcasting Company) news programs World News Tonight and 20/20. Vargas earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri in 1984 and soon began working as a reporter and anchor for KOMU television in Columbia, Missouri. After a brief stint in Reno, Nevada, she became a reporter for the ABC affiliate KTVK in Phoenix in 1986. She reported and anchored for WBBM television in Chicago from 1989 to 1993, when she joined the national ...(100 of 326 words)

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