George Stephanopoulos

George Robert Stephanopoulos (Greek: Γεώργιος Στεφανόπουλος; born February 10, 1961) is an American television journalist and a former political advisor.

George Stephanopoulos
Senior Advisor to the President
In office June 7, 1993 – December 10, 1996
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Rahm Emanuel
Succeeded by	Sidney Blumenthal
White House Communications Director
In office January 20, 1993 – June 7, 1993
President	Bill Clinton
Preceded by	Margaret D. Tutwiler
Succeeded by	Mark Gearan
Personal details
Born	George Robert Stephanopoulos (1961-02-10) February 10, 1961 (age 64) Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Alexandra Wentworth ​ (m. 2001)​
Children	2
Education	Columbia University (BA) Balliol College, Oxford (MA)
Website	Official website

Stephanopoulos is the chief political correspondent for the news division at ABC-TV– and a co-anchor of ABC-TV's morning news program, Good Morning America (GMA). He returned as host of ABC-TV's This Week in January 2012,^[1] a Sunday morning news program produced by ABC-TV's news division. He is the main replacement anchor for ABC-TV's newscast program, World News with Diane Sawyer.^[2]

In recent years, he has co-hosted ABC News's special live coverage of political events with Charles Gibson and Diane Sawyer. He and has often been on GMA and World News. He launched George's Bottom Line, an ABCNews.com blog.

Before he started working for ABC News, he was a senior political adviser to the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign of Bill Clinton. He later became the White House Communications Director for two years. He was replaced by David Gergen. This change came after the Republican party getting control of the U.S. House and Senate in the mid-term elections of 1994.

In April 2020, Stephanopoulos was diagnosed with COVID-19.^[3][4]