Former ABC Anchor Elizabeth Vargas Joins NewsNation

Former “20/20” host Elizabeth Vargas has found a new home alongside Chris Cuomo on upstart network NewsNation.

The NY Post reports the longtime ABC News reporter will anchor “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” an hour-long weekday news program from New York that will debut at 6 p.m. April 3, NewsNation said Tuesday.

She joins a stable of talking heads that includes former ABC News chief legal analyst Dan Abrams, Ashleigh Banfield, who had stints at CNN and MSNBC, and Cuomo, who was dismissed from CNN in 2021.

Vargas, who spent 14 years as an anchor at ABC News’ “20/20” and “World News Tonight,” left the network in 2018.

She has since hosted a new version of “America’s Most Wanted,” as well as the syndicated program “iCrime” and has led some investigative documentaries for A&E. 

Vargas, who has won Emmy and Peabody awards, said she’s looking forward to “delivering the news and newsmakers to all of America, and to cover the issues that truly matter to everyone, everywhere.”

NewsNation president of news Michael Corn, who worked with Vargas when they were both at ABC, called her “one of the most talented journalists working on television news today.”