Career & Net Worth Of David Muir

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Career & Net Worth Of David Muir

David Jason Muir is an American journalist who anchors ABC World News Tonight and co-anchors ABC News magazine 20/20, both of which are part of the ABC broadcast-television network’s news department in New York City.

David Muir: Net Worth

David Muir has an estimated net worth of $20 million as of 2022.

David Muir: Age, Height and Weight

David Muir was born on 8 November 1973 and he is 49 years old. He is 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighs 76 kg (168 lbs.).

David Muir: Sexuality

The ABC anchor has been accused of being gay, but he has never acknowledged the charges. He has been linked to a number of males he has been seen with. The rumors began after he was purportedly seen many times at homosexual bars, but David Muir’s sexuality remains unknown.

David Muir: Education

He graduated from Onondaga Central Junior-Senior High School in May 1991 and went on to Ithaca College, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism in May 1995. He interned at WTVH-TV in Syracuse throughout high school. Muir was motivated while in college by a lecturer who told him he had “the cut of a TV newsman.” He spent a semester at Georgetown University’s Fund for American Studies’ Institute on Political Journalism and another semester abroad with the Institute for International Education of Students at the University of Salamanca in Spain.\

David Muir: Career

Muir worked as an anchor and reporter at WTVH-TV in Syracuse, New York, from 1994 to 2000. Following the killing of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, Muir’s reporting from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Gaza Strip earned him top prizes from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. Muir received awards from the Associated Press for Best Enterprise Reporting and Best Television Interview. Muir was named the “Best Local Newscast Anchor” by the Syracuse Press Club, and he was also named one of the “Best Local News Anchors” in Syracuse.

Muir worked as an anchor and reporter for WCVB television in Boston from 2000 to 2003, when he won the regional Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting, as well as the National Headliner Award and Associated Press awards for his work tracing the path of the September 11, 2001 terrorists. His news anchoring and reporting were also acknowledged by the Associated Press.

Muir joined ABC News in August 2003 as the anchor of the overnight news program World News Now. He also became the anchor of ABC News’ World News This Morning in the early morning (America This Morning). Muir began anchoring World News Saturday in June 2007. He co-anchored the newsmagazine Primetime in 2006 and on occasion thereafter. Muir took over as weekend news anchor in February 2012, and the show was renamed World News with David Muir. Muir has been discreetly credited with increasing Sunday evening broadcast ratings. Muir was promoted to co-anchor ABC’s 20/20 with Elizabeth Vargas in March 2013.