Article: BIG STORY BRINGS OBSCURE NAMES TO THE FOREFRONT.(TV Currents)(Brief Article)

Byline: Michele Greppi

Big stories make or boost stars. While the drama and scope of the tragedy wrought by the tsunami in southern Asia generally brought out the best in the journalists who have covered it in the first two weeks, audiences in the United States found themselves absorbed by the first-rate reporting of some correspondents who are not well-known.

Among the high-profile standouts were CNN rising star Anderson Cooper, ABC News' leading lady Diane Sawyer and NBC's indefatigable freelance war correspondent Kevin Sites, who had left Iraq for a commune-with-nature vacation, which he cut short to volunteer for duty in Thailand.

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