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Muir's reports from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Gaza Strip following the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin earned him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Career WTVH television įrom 1994 to 2000, Muir worked as an anchor and a reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York.

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While in college Muir was inspired by a professor who told him he had 'the cut of a TV newsman.' He spent a semester at the Institute on Political Journalism at the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University and another semester abroad at the University of Salamanca in Spain with the Institute for the International Education of Students.

During high school, he interned at WTVH-TV in Syracuse. He graduated from Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School in May 1991 and attended local Ithaca College, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in May 1995. As a child he watched ABC News' flagship program each night with his family and credits longtime anchor Peter Jennings as his biggest journalistic influence. Muir has one older sibling and two younger step-siblings, as well as six nieces and three nephews. Early life and education ĭavid Muir was born into a Catholic family in Syracuse, New York, and grew up on Onondaga Hill. As of 2019, World News Tonight with David Muir has become the most watched newscast in the United States.

He has become one of the most visible journalists in America. Murrow awards for his national and international journalism.Īccording to the Tyndall Report, Muir's news reporting received the most airtime in 20. At ABC News, Muir has won multiple Emmy and Edward R. Muir previously served as the weekend anchor and primary substitute anchor on ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer succeeding her on September 1, 2014. Television news anchor, television journalist, managing editorĭavid Jason Muir (born November 8, 1973) is an American journalist and the anchor of 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 New York City.