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Park School of Communication at Ithaca College, where he was a journalism major and an anchor on a student newscast during his freshman year. “They had a growth chart on the newsroom wall where each summer and school break I came in, they'd mark me up on the wall and measure how much I'd grown and they would often joke about how many octaves my voice had dropped,' he told Jimmy Kimmel in 2017. Muir dove into the newsroom, carrying tripods for photographers and reporters in the field, ripping scripts and getting Coca-Colas for the anchors. It could be you.’”īy the time he was 13 and a student at Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School, he was interning at WTVH. There's always room for the right person. “He wrote, ‘Competition in television news is keen. “I'll never forget,” Muir told Central New York Magazine.

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Muir's determination was even clear at Halloween when he would put on a trench coat and dress as a reporter.Īs a young teen, he wrote a note to Syracuse’s WTVH Channel 5 anchor Ron Curtis, asking how to get a job like his. I thought Peter Jennings was the James Bond of evening news,” he told People.

By age 12, he made a habit of excusing himself from playing with his friends to watch the news at 6 p.m. When he was 10, he would mock broadcast from a cardboard box in his family’s living room. Early Lifeīorn to parents Ronald Muir and Pat Mills on November 8, 1973, in Syracuse, New York, David Muir knew from a young age that he wanted to be a broadcast journalist. Prior to his role at the national network, he was at Boston’s WCVB and Syracuse’s WTVH. Muir has been with ABC News since August 2003, joining World News Tonight as a weekend anchor and chief substitute for Sawyer in 2011 and as a co-anchor of 20/20 in 2013. He is also co-anchor of 20/20 with Amy Robach. He succeeded Diane Sawyer in September 2014. David Muir is currently the anchor and managing editor of ABC News’ World News Tonight with David Muir.

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