In December 2017 - after 14 years of anchoring 20/20 - Vargas announced she would be leaving the network to start a new chapter in her career.Ībout her departure, James Goldston, president of ABC News, wrote in a statement:

Utilizing her investigative journalism background, Vargas reported on a number of notable stories while at ABC News, including the Laci Peterson, Matthew Shepard and Amanda Knox cases, Christian refugees fleeing ISIS terrorists in Iraq, Cambodian orphans being adopted without their parents' consent, and the controversial immigration story of Elián González, for which she would receive in Emmy in 1999.

Among her accolades, she was distinguished as the first female evening news anchor of Latin descent among the three major networks. During her years at ABC News, she would work alongside Charlie Gibson, Bob Woodruff and Diane Sawyer. In 2004 she officially became 20/20's co-anchor. In 2002 she began receiving a variety of promotions, becoming co-anchor on 20/20 Downtown (later changed to Primetime Monday) and anchor for World News Tonight Saturday and a year later, for World News Tonight Sunday. Three years later, she began her prodigious career at ABC, joining Good Morning America as a news anchor and working under Joan Lunden. Journalism Career From NBC to ABCĪfter working for a CBS affiliate in Chicago, Vargas moved to NBC News, working on both Dateline and Today starting in 1993. Vargas graduated from the University of Missouri with a journalism degree. Army colonel of Puerto Rican descent, and Anne Vargas, of Irish-American descent. She was the daughter of Rafael Vargas, a U.S.

Vargas was born Elizabeth Anne Vargas on Septemin Paterson, New Jersey. In December 2017 Vargas announced she would be leaving ABC to pursue other projects, which included a production deal with A+E Networks' nonfiction series A&E Investigates, slated for 2018. In September 2016, Vargas publicly discussed her longtime battle with alcohol and anxiety during a 20/20 segment and subsequently released a book, Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction. Beginning in 1996, she worked for ABC Network on a variety of news shows, including Good Morning America, 20/20, World News Tonight and also served as a host for ABC News specials. Born in 1962, Elizabeth Vargas is an American broadcast journalist.

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