David Muir is an American journalist. Show He works for ABC broadcast-television network where he anchors the program “ABC World News Tonight with David Muir” and co-anchors the magazine program “20/20”.  He is also an Emmy Award winner. David’s show is the most watched news program in America and covers news not only from America but from all over the globe. It even covers reports from war torn hot zones such as Mogadishu, Tehran and Gaza. His report on the heroin crisis in America which he covered for a whole year earned the journalist a CINE Golden Eagle Award. The Ithaca College graduate, whose show has become the most-watched newscast in America, has covered stories from all across America and the world. He has reported from terror hot spots such as Tehran, Tahrir Square in Cairo, Mogadishu, and Gaza. In 2016, the respected journalist won a CINE Golden Eagle Award for his year-long report on the heroin crisis in America.
David Muir was born on November 8, 1973 in Syracuse, New York to parents Patt Millson and Ronald Muir. He has one sibling who is older than him and two step-siblings. David’s interest in news broadcasting started at a very tender age and he would even do pretend news broadcasts. He also made it a habit to always follow the news whenever he could. While he was attending high school at Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School, a local station WTVH-TV gave him an internship. After graduating high school in 1991, he enrolled at the Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communication to study journalism while also doing political science as a minor. During his freshman year, David got the opportunity to study at the Institute on Political Journalism in Georgetown University after anchoring a student newscast. Muir went on to study at the International Education of Students at the University of Salamanca in Spain. He then interned at the Department of Health and Human Services before graduating in 1995. CareerAfter graduation, David returned home and took a job at WTVH-TV (the station he had interned at in high school) as a reporter. He worked there for five years and then moved to WCVB in Boston where he worked as a reporter. During his career’s tentative years, the journalist won numerous awards for his prowess in covering certain events. Muir’s most notable career moment came when he was doing investigative reporting on September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks(popularly known as 9/11). He spent three years with WCVB television before moving on to join his current station ABC News. He was first hired to work in World News Now; an overnight news program and he has climbed the ladder from there to where he is now through his hard work and passion for journalism. In 2014 David was promoted to the position of managing editor and anchor of ABC World News a position that reportedly earns him $5 million per year. Does David Muir Have a Partner?David is known to enjoy a very close and loving relationship with his parents as evidenced from his social media posts. He also likes to post his siblings and their children on his Instagram showing a close relationship with them and even refers to them as his squad. Apart from this, not much is known about Muir’s personal life as he likes to keep it personal. It is known Muir is not married but it is unknown does he have a partner. All we know is that he is living with his dog Axel.
Is David Muir Gay? No. David Muir is not gay!Reports started emerging that David Muir might be gay when he was spotted hanging out with his colleague Gio Benitez who is openly gay. The two were said to be involved in a romantic relationship, something which none of them came out to confirm nor deny. Benitez however got married to his real boyfriend Tommy DiDario which means he was not involved with Muir. There has been no way to prove whether David is gay as he is so private about his life. It is however known that he is single and likes to spend most of his time with his nephews and nieces. There have been unsubstantiated rumors linking him to someone called Sean but that is all they are; rumors. David Muir Muir in 2021 BornDavid Jason Muir (1973-11-08) November 8, 1973 Syracuse, New York, U.S. 20/20 (2013–present)TermAnchor of ABC World News TonightPredecessorDiane Sawyer David 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. 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. At ABC News, Muir has won multiple Emmy and Edward R. Murrow awards for his national and international journalism. According to the Tyndall Report, Muir's news reporting received the most airtime in 2012 and 2013. He has become one of the most visible journalists in America.[1] As of 2019, World News Tonight with David Muir has become the most watched newscast in the United States.[2] In 2013, TV Week called him one of the "12 to Watch in TV News".[3] Muir was listed as one of People magazine's Sexiest Men Alive in 2014.[4] Early lifeDavid Muir was born into a Catholic family[5] in Syracuse, New York,[6] and grew up in Onondaga Hill. Muir has one older sibling and two younger step-siblings, as well as six nieces and three nephews. 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. 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.[7] During high school, he interned at WTVH-TV in Syracuse.[8] 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.[7][9] CareerWTVH televisionFrom 1994 to 2000, Muir worked as an anchor and a reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York.[8] 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 The Associated Press honored Muir for Best Enterprise Reporting and Best Television Interview. The Syracuse Press Club recognized Muir as anchor of the "Best Local Newscast", and he was voted one of the "Best Local News Anchors" in Syracuse. WCVB televisionFrom 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.[10] The Associated Press also recognized his news-anchoring and reporting.[11] ABC NewsIn August 2003, Muir joined ABC News as anchor of the overnight news program World News Now. He also became anchor of ABC News' early morning newscast World News This Morning (America This Morning). Starting in June 2007, Muir was the anchor of World News Saturday. In 2006, and occasionally thereafter, he co-anchored the newsmagazine Primetime. In February 2012, Muir became anchor for the weekend newscasts, and the broadcast was named World News with David Muir. Muir has been silently credited with a rise in the ratings of the weekend evening broadcasts.[12] In March 2013, Muir was promoted to co-anchor ABC's 20/20 with Elizabeth Vargas. In September 2005, Muir was inside the New Orleans Superdome as Hurricane Katrina hit, and stayed in New Orleans to report on the unfolding humanitarian crisis. Muir's reports revealed and highlighted the deteriorating conditions inside the Convention Center and Charity Hospital, as Muir and his photographer waded through chest-deep waters for blocks to find patients trapped inside the hospital.[7] Muir reported from the Israeli-Lebanon border in October 2006 on the Israeli war with Hezbollah. Muir was in Gaza in March 2007 to cover the Hamas coup, reporting from inside the Gaza Strip.[7] In October 2007, Muir was dispatched to Peru after the worst earthquake to hit that country in more than two decades. In September 2008, Muir reported from Ukraine, more than two decades after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. In April 2009, David Muir and Diane Sawyer reported a 20/20 hour about guns in America getting "disturbing results" as described by the New York Daily News.[13] In May 2009, Muir's reporting on 20/20 revealed a significant increase in the number of homeless children in America. Muir made multiple trips to the Gulf of Mexico to investigate the BP oil spill. In April 2011, Muir reported from Haiti after the hurricane and returned to report on the attacks against women.[7] In January 2010, David 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. More than 220,000 people died, and many others were injured in the 7.0-magnitude quake.[14] He has returned to Haiti multiple times since the earthquake hit, uncovering attacks on women and the unfolding mental health crisis in Port au Prince.[15] In June 2011, Muir reported from Tahrir Square during the political revolution in Egypt, and from Fukushima, Japan following the deadly tsunami and nuclear power plant accident. Muir wrote about his reporting from Mogadishu, Somalia, and his subsequent return, "Inside Somalia's Crippling Famine", for the Daily Beast.[16] Muir also anchored several hours of the tragedy in Newtown as it unfolded, and then reported from the scene as President Obama visited the town. Muir also 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.[7] In November 2012, Muir served as one of ABC's lead correspondents for the 2012 U.S. Presidential election. Muir's interviews with Republican candidate Mitt Romney[17] generated national headlines on the issues of economics and immigration policy in the United States.[18] Muir's Emmy-nominated Made In America series on the American economy is a continuing feature on his broadcast. Muir has brought the series to other television programs, including ABC's The View, where he has served as guest co-host.[19] In January 2013, Muir reported from inside Iran, leading up to the nuclear talks.[20] Muir was the first Western journalist to report from Mogadishu, Somalia on the famine.[21] Muir and his team came under fire while reporting from Mogadishu. In 2013, he received the Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting. On June 27, 2014, ABC News announced that Muir would succeed Diane Sawyer as the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News. Muir made his debut broadcast on September 1, 2014. In April 2015, "World News Tonight with David Muir" became the country's most-watched evening newscast, outpacing NBC Nightly News for the first time since September 7, 2009.[22] In March 2016, Muir released a year-long report on the heroin crisis in America winning a CINE Golden Eagle Award for his reporting.[23] In 2021, 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.[24] HonorsMuir delivered the commencement address at Ithaca College in New York in May 2011; he urged graduates to use their voices.[25] On March 13, 2015, the college awarded Muir, an alumnus, an honorary Doctor of Letters degree and the Jessica Savitch Award of Distinction for Excellence in Journalism.[26] On May 8, 2015, Muir delivered the commencement address at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. During the ceremony, he was given an honorary Doctor of Media degree.[27] On May 12, 2018, Muir delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin.[28] On May 15, 2022, Muir delivered the commencement address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York.[29] See also
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