David Muir Biography

David Jason Muir is an American journalist and the anchor of ABC World News Tonight with David Muir. Previously he served as the weekend anchor for the flagship ABC News broadcast ABC World News Tonight and the co-anchor of the ABC newsmagazine 20/20.

In 2012 and 2013 Muir’s reporting received the most airtime which makes him the most visible journalists in America. In 2014 he was listed as one of People Magazine’s Sexiest Men Alive.

David Muir Early Life And Career

Muir was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Onondaga Hill. He has one older sibling, Rebecca Muir, three nieces, and one nephew. He graduated from Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School in May 1991.

The child of a divorced parent, Mills and Ronald Muir, David grew up near Syracuse, N.Y. As a child, Muir took comfort from the news “family” that he watched each evening. He watched ABC’s Peter Jennings, trying to guess who would be “person of the week.”

At age 12, Muir sends a letter to Syracuse anchorman Ron Curtis, asking for advice on how to get in the business. By the following summer, he was invited to intern at WTVH-TV.

Muir attended the Georgetown University, where he studied Political Journalism. He also went to the University of Salamanca in Spain.

David Muir Journalism Career

The reinforcements have arrived. @GMA pic.twitter.com/5dhtsLGYR5

— David Muir (@DavidMuir) August 18, 2017

Muir worked as an anchor and a reporter at WTVH television in Syracuse, New York from 1995 to 2000. Muir turned out to be familiar to the point that the newsroom had a spot on the wall to check how much he’d developed every year. He was still at Ithaca College when WTVH hired him to anchor the weekend news.

Great fun joining @LiveKelly — @KellyRipa makes me smile. pic.twitter.com/Bl9cZZKAx6

— David Muir (@DavidMuir) August 15, 2016

The report for the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ranked him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. To become an anchor and reporter in WTVH Television Muir struggled five years after his graduation and served WTVH for three years.

After leaving WTVH, he worked with WCVB from 2000 to 2003. He got Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting from WCVB.

David Muir’s career with ABC News

He moved on to Boston after five years at WTVH and started working for ABC News in 2003. He became an anchor of overnight news program World News Now.

He soon gets attention after he reported about the hurricane Katrina. As Katrina hit, Muir was inside the New Orleans Super Dome in September 2005 and reported on the unfolding humanitarian crisis. Muir has also reported from the Israeli-Lebanon border in October 2006 and reported from inside the Gaza Strip in March 2007 to cover the Hamas coup.

In May 2009 he stated 20/20 revealed a significant increase in the number of homeless children in America. He earned Press Honors by tracing hijackers involved in the incident of 11th September 2001. Muir served as one of ABC’s lead correspondents for the 2012 U.S. Presidential election in November 2012.

He has reported from Mogadishu, Somalia on the famine and became the first Western journalist to report from Mogadishu. He was honored with Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting in 2013.

President Trump’s First Interview After His Presidency With ABC’s David Muir

The controversial President Donald Trump had his first interview since taking office with David Muir. The ABC’s exclusive interview was conducted on 26th January 2017, where the two discussed voter fraud, Waterboarding, border wall, and much much more.

.@HillaryClinton tells me she’s ready to debate Donald Trump. “It will be a singular moment in American history.” pic.twitter.com/3PRKSSkYFF

— David Muir (@DavidMuir) June 8, 2016

Trump tells Muir in his first one-on-one TV interview after naming the 45th president of the United States, that Mexico would be paying for the proposed border wall and that transactions between the two countries would begin “relatively soon.”

 

Hope you’ll join us shortly for a special edition of World News Tonight. #inauguration #dc

A post shared by David Muir (@davidmuirabc) on Jan 19, 2017 at 2:51pm PST

Trump said, “Ultimately, it will come out of what’s happening with Mexico … and we will be in a form reimbursed by Mexico, which I’ve always said”. During the meeting, which occurred at the White House, Trump stated that Mexico would pay the U.S. back “100 percent.”

David Won CINE Golden Eagle Award

On 29th April 2016, David Muir won the CINE Golden Eagle Award for his reporting on heroin. The TV episode named “20/20 Breaking Point: Heroin in America” started airing on ABC 20/20 from 11th March 2016.

At the beginning of May 2017, David Muir traveled to follow the African nations facing famine. His reporting was aired on World News Tonight from May 2. It was produced by Nick Capote, Keturah Gray, and Glenn Ruppel. ABC News president, James Goldston declared the winner in the category of News Program/Continuing Coverage.

David Muir Dating, Affairs, Relationship, Girlfriend

David was rumored that he is dating his colleague Gio Benitez who is also a Journalist. They were often seen together in a gay bar. However, this rumors came to end when Gio married his boyfriend. There are also rumors that he is already married to his boyfriend Sean but no any evidence can prove it.

Moreover, David also came in headlines when he uploaded a picture with his colleague Kelly Ripa. Their relationship also came as a big question when the Kelly wrote relationship about David Muir.

 

It worked. I’ll do it. Live w Kelly first thing in the am. ( I would have said yes anyway. ) What a way to start the week.

A post shared by David Muir (@davidmuirabc) on Feb 12, 2017 at 3:30pm PST

Additionally, David secretive behavior makes his fans and following in a great delimma. Though he hasn’t mentioned any things regarding his dating and affairs now, we are sure he will tell us about his relationship in the near future.  

David Muir Net Worth, Salary, Income, Earning

David Muir earns a good sum of money in his career. A familiar face as the weekend anchor of “World News” and Sawyer’s substitute on weeknights, Muir prepped himself for his current career since his childhood.

Through his reporting career, which he started since 1995, Muir has earned much name and fame. Allocating information from several sources as of 2018 it is found out that David Muir has an estimated net worth of $7.5 million and this popular news anchor makes an annual salary of $5 million.

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