David Muir is the anchor and managing editor for ABC World News Tonight with David Muir, the most viewed newscast in the United States and ABC’s 20/20 co-anchor. Muir’s report has been awarded multiple Emmy Awards and Edward R. Murrow Awards, with the Association of Professional Journalists honoring Muir with his overseas report. Muir’s report on climate change has been recognized by the prestigious George Polk Award and the Alfred I. Dupont Columbia Award. In 2024, Muir received the Walter Cronkite Award for excellence in journalism.
Since joining ABC News, Muir has reported on the major stories of our time for over 20 years with global dispatches from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Tahrir Square, Mogadishu, Gaza, Guantanamo, Fukushima, Beirat, Amman and Syrian borders.
Muir’s exclusive interviews with world leaders generate global headlines. Muir traveled to Kyiv for an exclusive interview with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the beginning of the Ukrainian counterattack, a key point of the war. Muir was also the first American anchor to interview Zelensky after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Muir has conducted numerous exclusive interviews with the US president. At the White House in December 2021, Muir made a big headline to President Biden, pushing out whether the US was prepared for the Covid Surge. In February 2023, Muir conducted two interviews with one President Biden in Warsaw on Ukraine’s US support. In 2024, Muir interviewed Normandy President Biden and forced him to forgive his son, Hunter Biden. It was the first time the president said he would not merciless his son. Biden reversed the course six months later.
Muir traveled to Normandy and recorded the World War II heroes he traveled to commemorate the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
Previously, Muir conducted his first interview with then-President Donald Trump at the White House and was the first network anchor to interview President Trump during the Covid-19 pandemic. Muir secured his first joint interview with then-President Joe Biden and his running companion, Sen. Kamala Harris, weeks before the 2020 election.
Muir traveled to Afghanistan to interview the US Commander-in-Chief in consultation with the Taliban, then traveled to Iraq to interview America’s top military leaders in the fight against ISIS. Muir interviewed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani after the US withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal.
Muir secured an exclusive interview with then-President Barack Obama on his historic trip to Cuba. Muir landed a historic sit-in with Pope Francis within the Vatican, presiding the Vatican’s first city hall, Pope Francis and people. Muir directed the town hall in Spanish. Muir also presided over President Obama, President, People and City Hall. He won Emmy, a national conversation about race, police and efforts to fill the division.
Over 70 million people saw Muir co-produced the only presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Muir eased major debates between multiple Democrats and Republican presidents, and conducted numerous interviews with presidential candidates, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It was one of Muir’s exclusive interviews with Secretary Clinton, where she apologised to Americans for the use of private email servers.
Muir reports on many detailed specials from ABC News. More recently, Muir reported on flood children from South Sudan and from South Madagascar on climate change children, shedding light on the United Nations warning being climate-driven hunger. Muir’s Climate Change Report won the George Polk Award and raised a record $9 million in global food programs.
Muir reported on the children of Auschwitz, documenting a journey for Holocaust survivors returning to Poland 75 years after Auschwitz’s liberation, and won Emmy for his work. Muir reported his return to Normandy, profiled World War II veterans and stormed Normandy beaches 75 years after changing courses in history.
Muir has spent more than a year reporting refugees from Breaking Point: America and Flashpoint: America. Muir was the first American journalist to anchor from the scene of the European refugee crisis, reporting from the Hungarian/Serbian border. Muir also reported from the war border of Syrian child refugees. Muir gained unusual access to Guantanamo Prison and traveled to Amman, Jordan, to report a review of refugees coming to the United States.
Muir also attended the Institute of Political Journalism at Georgetown University, a graduate of Magna Cum Laude at Ithaca University, where he studied at the University of Salamanca, Spain. Before joining ABC News, Muir was an award-winning anchor and reporter at WCVB-TV in Boston, highlighting his role as a WTVH-TV in his hometown of Syracuse.
