David Muir
American broadcast journalist
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| 2024 | Wins Emmy Award for Outstanding Live News Program for the second consecutive year. |
| 2024 | Receives the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. |
| December 1 2024 | President Biden reversed his earlier stance to Muir and pardoned his son Hunter Biden, with multiple news outlets referencing Muir's June interview as context for this decision. |
| September 10 2024 | Muir co-moderated a presidential debate on ABC News with Linsey Davis, featuring former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. The debate was watched by nearly 70 million Americans, with Muir actively fact-checking Trump's statements and pressing both candidates on substantive policy issues. |
| June 6 2024 | David Muir interviewed President Biden in Normandy, directly questioning him about a potential pardon for his son Hunter Biden. During the interview, Biden explicitly stated he would not pardon his son. |
| January 25 2024 | Muir and ABC News were recognized with an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award for Environmental Reporting, and his climate reporting from South Sudan earned him another News & Documentary Emmy. |
| 2023 | Traveled to South Sudan to report on historic flooding and conflict, with his report 'South Sudan: Isolated by Water and War' earning a News & Documentary Emmy and contributing to ABC News' Alfred I. duPont-Columbia award for climate coverage. |
| September 27 2023 | Muir was awarded a News & Documentary Emmy for Outstanding Live News Program and an RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for TV Network Newscast. |
| September 19 2023 | Muir was named the winner of the 40th Cronkite Award by Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. |
| 2022 | Muir's reporting on climate change-driven famine in Madagascar earned him a George Polk Award and a News & Documentary Emmy for environmental journalism. |
| May 15 2022 | Muir delivered the commencement address at Syracuse University. |
| 2021 | Muir became the lead anchor of breaking news and special event coverage for ABC News. |
| 2021 | Traveled to Southern Madagascar to report on the first climate-change driven famine, leading to over $3 million in donations from ABC News viewers and earning him a George Polk Award and two News & Documentary Emmy Awards. |
| 2020 | Muir traveled to Auschwitz concentration camp with survivors who were imprisoned there as children, earning a News & Documentary Emmy the following year. |
| May 6 2020 | Muir interviewed President Donald Trump about the COVID-19 pandemic during a period when his ratings surged to around 12 million viewers. |
| 2019 | Muir won an Emmy for his reporting on the Las Vegas shooting for ABC's 20/20. |
| 2018 | Muir's live reporting from Panama City Beach, Florida during Hurricane Michael won a News & Documentary Emmy for breaking news. |
| 2018 | ABC World News Tonight with David Muir received the RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for TV Network Newscast for coverage of the Santa Rosa wildfires. |
| May 12 2018 | Muir delivered the commencement address at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| 2017 | Muir's reporting for 20/20 'Heroin: Breaking Point in America' won a CINE Golden Eagle Award in the News Program/Continuing Coverage category. |
| January 25 2017 | Muir interviewed President Donald Trump in the White House, which was Trump's first interview as president, five days after his inauguration. |
| 2016 | Muir moderated a town hall with President Barack Obama on race and policing after a series of police-involved shootings, winning a News & Documentary Emmy. |
| March 2016 | Muir released a year-long report on the heroin crisis in America, winning a CINE Golden Eagle Award for his reporting. |
| May 8 2015 | Muir delivered the commencement address at Northeastern University and received an honorary Doctor of Media degree. |
| April 2015 | World News Tonight with David Muir became the most-watched evening newscast in the United States, outpacing NBC Nightly News for the first time since September 7, 2009. |
| March 13 2015 | Ithaca College awarded Muir an honorary Doctor of Letters degree and the Jessica Savitch Award of Distinction for Excellence in Journalism. |
| September 1 2014 | Muir made his debut broadcast as anchor of ABC World News. |
| June 27 2014 | ABC News announced David Muir would succeed Diane Sawyer as the anchor and managing editor of ABC World News. |
| 2013 | Muir received the Edward R. Murrow Award for his reporting. |
| March 2013 | Muir was promoted to co-anchor ABC's 20/20 alongside Elizabeth Vargas. |
| January 2013 | Muir reported from inside Iran, leading up to nuclear talks, and became the first Western journalist to report from Mogadishu, Somalia on the famine, during which he and his team came under fire. |
| 2012 | Muir was awarded an Edward R. Murrow Award for Hard News Reporting for his report 'A Cry For Help: Famine in Somalia'. |
| December 2012 | Muir anchored coverage of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and reported from the scene when President Obama visited the town. He also reported on mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. |
| November 2012 | Muir served as one of ABC's lead correspondents for the 2012 U.S. presidential election, conducting notable interviews with Republican candidate Mitt Romney on economics and immigration policy. |
| February 2012 | Muir became an anchor for both weekend newscasts, with the broadcast renamed World News with David Muir. |
| 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. |
| May 2011 | David Muir delivered the commencement address at Ithaca College, urging graduates to use their voices. |
| January 2010 | Muir traveled to Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 7.0-magnitude earthquake that killed over 220,000 people, orphaned thousands of children, and destroyed buildings and basic services. |
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