exclusive Capitol File, a Washington society magazine in Jason Binn's Niche Media stable, got very lucky: They had a Diane Sawyer interview in the can just before the announcement came in late August that she would be taking over from Charlie Gibson as the anchor of ABC World News. Sawyer doesn't do many of these, and Cap File got lots of access, a sweet photoshoot capturing Sawyer in various guises, and a nice chatty interview about Sawyer's career highlights (interviewing Nelson Mandela and Boris Yeltsin was amazing; interviewing Saddam Hussein was stressful and made her extremely conscious of the mortality of herself and her crew), Nixon's geopolitical insight, and how many hours of sleep she gets a night (four). The article goes to great lengths to present her as an ambitious, accomplished leader in her industry, which was made all the more impressive considering the era in which Sawyer rose to prominence as a woman in a man's world. Then I saw the headline. It read: WOMAN ON TOP. (more...)