Linsey Davis is an American broadcast journalist at

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, who currently anchors the Sunday edition of ''World News Tonight'' and the network's weekday prime-time streaming program, ''

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Prime with Linsey Davis.'' She is also a substitute anchor for ''

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'', and the weekday and Saturday editions of ''

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''.

Early life

Davis was raised in

Medford, New Jersey Medford is a township in Burlington County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 24,497, an increase of 1,464 (+6.4%) from the 2010 census count of 23,033, which in turn reflected ...

. She graduated from the

Moorestown Friends School Moorestown Friends School (MFS) is a private, coeducational Quaker day school in Moorestown, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 652 students (plus 43 in PreK) and 74.5 classroom teachers ...

in neighboring

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, in 1995. She earned a bachelor's degree from the

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, where she was a member of the

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sorority. She earned a master's degree in communication from

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Career

Davis has been a longtime correspondent for ABC, reporting for ''

'', ''20/20'', ''

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'', and ''World News Tonight''. She launched the flagship streaming broadcast on February 10, 2020. The following year, it was announced that Davis would take over anchor responsibilities for the Sunday edition of ''World News Tonight'', with Whit Johnson handling Saturday duties, following the departure of network anchor

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. In 2022, Adweek reported that Davis was adding radio to her responsibilities, saying she would "deliver the top stories in

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's national 5 p.m. ET newscast Monday to Thursday each week." Adweek noted, Davis took on a role once held by

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and

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. In addition to her anchoring roles on broadcast television, streaming, and radio,

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states that "Since 2019... Davis has appeared alongside

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and

David Muir David Jason Muir ( ; born November 8, 1973) is an American journalist and anchor for '' ABC World News Tonight'' and co-anchor of the ABC News magazine '' 20/20'', part of the news department of the ABC broadcast-television network, based in ...

to help anchor presidential debates, election coverage and other critical news events." Linsey was one of the moderators for the 2024 presidential debate with former President Donald J. Trump and Vice President Kamala D. Harris. Davis is also the author of four children's books, including ''How High Is Heaven?'' (2022).

References

External links

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''Guideposts'' article about Davis
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