UGA grad Amy Robach set to be new '20/20'co-host

‘Good Morning America’ anchor moving to nights.

Amy Robach has a new role at ABC News.

The “Good Morning America” anchor is moving to nights to co-host “20/20” alongside David Muir, the network announced Monday.

Robach, 45, will still report on major news stories for GMA. She’s filling the seat vacated by Elizabeth Vargas, who is leaving for “A+E Investigates.”

“Amy, as we know so well, is a brilliant journalist and a skilled interviewer,” ABC News president James Goldston said in a staff memo. “She hascovered the biggest news events around the world, from the deadly terrorist attacks in Belgiumand Manchester and the Pulse nightclub shooting to the poaching epidemic in Tanzania and the Olympic games in PyeongChang, Rio and Sochi.

Robach, a graduate of Brookwood High School in Snellville and the University of Georgia, memorably underwent her first mammogram on “GMA” in October 2013 — and learned she had stage III breast cancer. She’s now cancer-free and said the battle brought her closer to husband Andrew Shue and her two daughters. (She also wrote a New York Times bestselling book about the experience, “Better: How I Let Go of Control, Held on to Hope and Found Joy in My Darkest Hour.”)

“That is the gift of facing death,” she told People magazine in 2015, “that you say to yourself all I need is what I have right now.”

BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM Amy Robach, shown here giving a commencement speech at her alma mater, the University of Georgia, in 2015, will take over the co-anchor role on ABC’s “20/20,” which is being vacated by Elizabeth Vargas, who is leaving for “A+E Investigates.”