1. Since joining ABC News in 2003, David Muir has reported from international hotspots all over the world, with dispatches from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Tahrir Square, Mogadishu, Gaza, Guantanamo, Fukushima, Beirut, Amman, and the Syrian border, among other locations.
At ABC News, Muir has won multiple Emmy and Edward R Murrow awards for his national and international journalism.
David Muir was the 2024 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism.
David Muir has become one of the most visible journalists in America.
World News Tonight with David Muir has been the most watched newscast in the United States since 2015.
David Muir was born into a Catholic family in Syracuse, New York, and grew up in Onondaga Hill.
David Muir has one older sibling, two younger stepsiblings, six nieces, and three nephews.
David Muir graduated from Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School in May 1991.
David Muir 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.
From 1994 to 2000, David Muir worked as an anchor and a reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York.
From 2000 to 2003, Muir was an anchor and a reporter for WCVB television in Boston, where he won the regional Edward R Murrow Award for investigative reporting and the National Headliner Award and Associated Press honors for his work tracing the path of the hijackers involved in the September 11,2001, attacks.
David Muir became the anchor of ABC News' early morning newscast World News This Morning.
In June 2007, David Muir became the anchor of World News Saturday.
David Muir has been silently credited with a rise in the ratings of the weekend evening broadcasts.
In September 2005, David Muir was inside the New Orleans Superdome as Hurricane Katrina hit and stayed in New Orleans to report on the unfolding humanitarian crisis.
David Muir's reports revealed and highlighted the deteriorating conditions inside the Convention Center and Charity Hospital as David Muir waded through chest-deep water to find patients trapped inside the hospital.
David Muir reported from the Israeli-Lebanon border in October 2006 on the Israeli war with Hezbollah.
David Muir was in Gaza in March 2007 to cover the Hamas coup, reporting from inside the Gaza Strip.
In October 2007, David Muir was dispatched to Peru after the worst earthquake to hit that country in more than two decades.
In September 2008, David Muir reported from Ukraine, more than two decades after the Chernobyl nuclear accident.
David Muir made multiple trips to the Gulf of Mexico to investigate the BP oil spill.
In January 2010, David Muir traveled to Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake, which orphaned tens of thousands of children and destroyed the country's buildings and basic services.
David Muir has returned to Haiti multiple times since the earthquake hit, uncovering attacks on women and the unfolding mental health crisis in Port au Prince.
In June 2011, David Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the political revolution in Egypt, and from Fukushima, Japan following the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident.
David Muir wrote about his reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia, and his subsequent return, "Inside Somalia's Crippling Famine", for the Daily Beast.
In November 2012, David Muir served as one of ABC's lead correspondents for the 2012 US presidential election.
In December 2012, David Muir anchored several hours of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting as it unfolded, and then reported from the scene as President Obama visited the town.
David Muir reported from the movie theater mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado; from Joplin, Missouri in the aftermath of a destructive tornado; and from Tucson, Arizona after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords that left six others dead.
In January 2013, David Muir reported from inside Iran, leading up to the nuclear talks.
David Muir was the first Western journalist to report from Mogadishu, Somalia on the famine.
On June 27,2014, ABC News announced that David Muir would succeed Diane Sawyer as the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News.
David Muir's Emmy-nominated Made in America series on the American economy is a continuing feature on his broadcast.
David Muir has brought the series to other television programs, including ABC's The View, where he has served as guest co-host.
In March 2016, David Muir released a year-long report on the heroin crisis in America winning a CINE Golden Eagle Award for his reporting.
David Muir has moderated multiple Democratic and Republican Presidential Primary debates and interviewed numerous presidential candidates.
David Muir interviewed then President Donald Trump on January 25,2017, in the White House.
In 2020, David Muir's ratings exploded during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic along with the other Evening News programs.
On May 6,2020, David Muir interviewed President Donald Trump about the COVID Pandemic.
Ahead of the 2020 presidential election, David 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, David Muir pressed Biden on whether the US was prepared for the Covid surge.
In February 2023, David Muir conducted two interviews with President Biden, one in Warsaw on US support for Ukraine.
David Muir interviewed Biden in Normandy during the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
David Muir was the first network anchor to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
David Muir later interviewed Zelenskyy in Kyiv as Ukraine began its counteroffensive against Russia.
In 2021, David Muir 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.
David Muir frequently fact-checked Trump for making false statements, including Trump's claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating dogs and cats.
David Muir pressed Harris on whether she bears any responsibility for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, and on the economy, David Muir asked Harris if Americans were better off than they were 4 years ago.
On June 6,2024, David Muir interviewed president Biden in Normandy.