David Muir Biography
David Jason Muir is an award-winning American journalist and anchor for ABC World News Tonight and co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20. Muir previously worked as the weekend anchor and primary substitute anchor. He co-anchored with Diane Sawyer on ABC’s World News Tonight before succeeding her on 1 September, 2014.
David Muir Career
Muir has won numerous Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for his national and international journalism at ABC News. He is the 2024 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in journalism. His climate reporting has been recognized with the George Polk Award and the Alfred I. dupont-Columbia Award.
Muir joined ABC News in 2003 and since then has reported from international correspondence with dispatches from countless countries. Such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Tahrir square, Mogadishu, Gaza, Guantanamo, Fukushima, Beirut, Amman and the Syrian Border.
He is one of the most visible journalists in America. World News Tonight with David Nuir is now the most watched newscast in the United States since 2015.
Muir worked as an anchor and reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York from 1994 to 2000. Following the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, his reports from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel and Gaza earned him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. He was honored by the Associated Press for Best Enterprise Reporting and Best Television Interview. Muir got recognition by the Syracuse Press Club as the anchor of the “Best Local Newscast.” In addition, he was voted one of the “Best Local News Anchors” in Syracuse.
Muir was an anchor and a reporter for WCVB television in Boston from 2000 to 2003. He won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award for investigate reporting. Additionally, he won the National Headliner Award and Associated Press honors for his work tracing the path of the hijackers involved in the 11 September 2001 attacks. In addition, The Associated Press recognized his news-anchoring and reporting.
Muir joined ABC News as an anchor of the overnight news program World News Now in August 2003. In addition, he became the anchor of ABC News’ early morning newscast World News This morning.(America This Morning). Muir was the anchor of World News Saturday in June 2007. He also occasionally co-anchored the newsmagazine Primetime in 2006. Muir became an anchor for the weekend newscasts broadcast World News with David Muir in February 2012. He got credit silently with a rise in ratings of the weekend evening broadcasts. Muir got promotion to co-anchor ABC’s 20/20 with Elizabeth Vargas in March 2013.
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He was inside the New Orleans Superdome as Hurricane Katrina hit and stayed in New Orleans to cover the unfolding humanitarian crisis in September 2005. Muir reported on the Israeli war with Hezbollah from the Israeli-Lebanon border in October 2006. In March 2007, he was in Gaza to cover the Hamas coup reporting from inside the Gaza Strip. Muir was dispatched to Peru after the worst earthquake hit the country in more than two decades in October 2007.
Muir reported from Ukraine more than two decades after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in September 2008. David Muir and Diane Sawyer covered a 20/20 hour about guns in America getting “disturbing results” as described by the New York Daily News in April 2009.
Muir’s report on 20/20 divulged a crucial increase in the number of homeless children in America in May 2009. He made numerous trips to the Gulf of Mexico to investigate the BP oil spill. Muir covered the Hurricane at Haiti and brought a report on the attacks against women.
He travelled to Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake which made tens of thousands of children orphans in January 2010. The earthquake also destroyed the country’s buildings and basic services. In addition, more than 220,000 people died and countless others were injured in the 7.0-magnitude quake. Muir has returned to Haiti several times since the earthquake, reporting on women and the unfolding health crisis in Port au Prince.
Muir covered the political revolution in Egypt from Tahrir square, the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident in Fukushima, Japan in June 2011. He worked as ABC’s correspondent for the 2012 U.S presidential election in November 2012. He reported from Iran leading up to the nuclear talks in January 2013. Muir was the first western journalist to report on the famine in Mogadishu, Somalia.
He released a year-long report on the heroin crisis in America in March 2016, winning a Cine Golden Eagle Award. Muir has moderated multiple Democratic and Republican Presidential Primary debates and interviewed numerous presidential candidates. During one of his interviews with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2015, she admitted it was a mistake to use a private e-mail server. Muir interviewed President Donald Trump on January 25, 2017 in the White House. It was Trump’s first interview as President.
In 2020, his ratings exploded during the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic along with other Evening News programs. Ahead of the 2020 Presidential election, Muir conducted the first joint interview with Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his running mate, then-Senator Kamala Harris.At the White House in December 2021, Muir pressed Biden on whether the U.S. was prepared for the Covid surge. In February 2023, Muir conducted two interviews with President Biden, one in Warsaw on U.S. support for Ukraine and in Normandy during the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
In 2021, he became the lead anchor of breaking news and special event coverage for ABC News, a role previously held by GMA anchor George Stephanopoulos from 2014 to 2020.
Muir and Linsey Davis moderated a presidential debate on ABC News between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris on 10 September, 2024. He frequently fact checked Trump for making false statements, such as Trump’s claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating dogs and cats. Muir and Davis interjections provoked claims of bias from Trump and Republicans and discussion on the role of moderators in presidential debates.
David Muir Age
He was born David Jason Muir on 8 November,1973 in Syracuse, New York. Muir will turn 51 as of 2024.
David Muir Height
He stands tall at 5 feet 10 inches, 1.778m or 188.8 cm.
David Muir Education
Muir graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from Ithaca College in May 1995.
David Muir Family
He was born into a Catholic family in Syracuse, New York and was raised on Onondaga Hill. Muir was born to his father, Ronald Muir and mother, Pat Mills, however they divorced when he was young. He has an older sister sibling, Rebecca Muir who runs a farm in Borodino, New York. Muir has two younger stepsiblings from his father’s second marriage. In addition, he has six nieces and three nephews. When he was young, Muir watched ABC News flagship program every night with his family. He gives credit to longtime anchor Peter Jennings as his biggest journalistic influence.
David Muir Wife
He is not married and remains exceptionally private about his personal life including who he dates.
David Muir Children
Muir does not have children but he has a beloved dog, Axel who he adores absolutely.
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