David Muir is the anchor and managing editor of “World News Tonight
with David Muir,” the most-watched newscast in the U.S., and
co-anchor of ABC’s “20/20.” Muir’s reporting has been honored
with multiple Emmy® Awards and Edward R. Murrow Awards, and the
Society of Professional Journalists has honored Muir for his reporting
overseas. Muir’s reporting on climate change has been recognized
with the prestigious George Polk Award and the Alfred I.
duPont-Columbia Award. In 2024, Muir was honored with the Walter
Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, and he was named one of
TIME magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2025.

Since joining ABC News, Muir has spent more than two decades reporting
from all over the world on the major stories of our time, with global
dispatches from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Ukraine, Tahrir Square,
Mogadishu, Gaza, Guantanamo, Fukushima, Beirut, Amman and the Syrian
border.

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
Ukraine’s counter-offensive, a crucial point in the war. Muir was
also the first American anchor to interview Zelenskyy after the
Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Muir has conducted numerous exclusive interviews with U.S. presidents.
At the White House in December 2021, Muir pressed former President
Biden on whether the U.S. was prepared for the COVID surge, making
major headlines. In February 2023, Muir conducted two interviews with
Biden, one in Warsaw on U.S. support for Ukraine. In 2024, Muir
interviewed Biden in Normandy, pressing him on whether he would pardon
his son, Hunter Biden. It was the first time the president said he
would not pardon his son. Biden reversed course six months later.

Muir traveled to Normandy to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day,
documenting World War II heroes who made the trip back.

Previously, Muir conducted the first interview with President Donald
Trump during his first term in the White House and was the first
network anchor to interview President Trump during the COVID-19
pandemic. Muir secured the first joint interview with then-Vice
President Joe Biden and his running mate, then-Sen. Kamala Harris,
weeks before the 2020 election.

Muir traveled to Afghanistan to interview the top U.S. commander amid
talks with the Taliban and traveled to Iraq to interview top American
military leaders in the fight against ISIS. Muir interviewed Iranian
President Hassan Rouhani after the U.S. pulled out of the Iran nuclear
deal.

Muir secured the exclusive interview with then-President Barack Obama
during the former president’s historic trip to Cuba. Muir landed a
historic sit-down with Pope Francis inside the Vatican, moderating the
first-ever Vatican town hall, “Pope Francis and the People,” which
was conducted in Spanish. Muir also moderated a town hall with Obama,
“The President and the People: A National Conversation About Race,
Policing and Efforts to Bridge the Divide,” earning an Emmy.

More than 70 million watched as Muir co-moderated the only
presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. Muir has
moderated multiple Democratic and Republican presidential primary
debates and has conducted numerous interviews with presidential
candidates, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It
was during one of Muir’s exclusive interviews with Secretary Clinton
that she apologized to the American people for her use of a private
e-mail server.

Muir has reported numerous in-depth specials for ABC News. Most
recently, Muir reported from South Sudan on “The Children of the
Floods” and from southern Madagascar on “The Children of Climate
Change,” bringing light to what the U.N. warns is climate-driven
famine. Muir’s reporting on climate change earned the George Polk
Award and raised a record $9 million for the UN’s World Food
Programme.

Muir reported “The Children of Auschwitz,” documenting Holocaust
survivors returning to Poland 75 years after the liberation of
Auschwitz, earning an Emmy for his work, and “Return to Normandy,”
profiling World War II veterans who stormed the beaches of Normandy
returning to France 75 years after changing the course of history.

Muir spent more than a year reporting “Breaking Point: Heroin in
America” and “Flashpoint: Refugees in America.” He was the first
American journalist to anchor from the scene of Europe’s refugee
crisis, reporting from the Hungarian-Serbian border. Muir also
reported from the Syrian border on child refugees of war. He gained
rare access to Guantánamo prison and traveled to Amman, Jordan, to
report on the vetting of refugees coming to the United States.

A magna cum laude graduate of Ithaca College, Muir also attended the
Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University and studied
at the University of Salamanca in Spain. Prior to joining ABC News,
Muir distinguished himself as an award-winning anchor and reporter at
WCVB-TV in Boston and WTVH-TV in his hometown of Syracuse, New York.
