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Elizabeth Vargas

American television journalist
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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 bachelorā€™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...

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