Muir delivered the commencement address at Ithaca College in New York in May 2011, during which he urged graduates to use their voices. [14] Primary substitutes are Stephanopoulos, World News weekend anchor Tom Llamas, as well as reporters Rebecca Jarvis and Amy Robach.
Gibson anchored the broadcast the first part of the week; Bob Woodruff anchored the final edition of World News Tonight with Peter Jennings on August 12, 2005. [3] Muir was listed as one of People Magazine's Sexiest Men Alive in 2014. The program was replaced again by Asia Business Report and Sport Today on March 30, 2015.[38]. Muir's reports from Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Gaza Strip following the 1995 assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin earned him top honors from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In February 2012, Muir became anchor for the weekend newscasts, and the broadcast was named World News with David Muir. Shedden, David (April 4, 2006; updated September 8, 2011). Ron Claiborne is the news anchor for ABC News' weekend edition of "Good Morning America."
[15] Muir's Emmy-nominated Made In America series on the American economy is a continuing feature on his broadcast. However, the original names were restored on July 19, 2006, concurrent with the retitling of the weekday broadcasts, but the opening title sequence displayed the name as World News for both the Saturday and Sunday editions.
Click through for her bio. The ratings increased steadily, but still remained in third place, behind dominant CBS and NBC. People in the news industry looked at the choice of Vargas and Woodruff by ABC News as the start of a new era in network television news. [7] In October 2007, Muir was dispatched to Peru after the worst earthquake to hit that country in more than two decades. Muir also reported from the movie theater mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado; from Joplin, Missouri in the aftermath of a destructive tornado; and from Tucson, Arizona after the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that left six others dead. Since 2014, the program's weekday broadcasts have been anchored by David Muir. [13] The network chose to make the, albeit minor, change to remove "Tonight" from the title in order to reflect the program's expansion into the "24-hour space created by the digital world".[14]. [30] In November 2016, World News Tonight was the most-watched network primetime newscast for the first time in 18 years. As a child, he watched ABC News' flagship program each night with his family and credits longtime anchor Peter Jennings as his biggest journalistic influence. [3] Cecilia Vega and Tom Llamas rotated as anchors of the Saturday editions and Sunday editions until Llamas was named sole weekend anchor in January 2017. Muir made multiple trips to the Gulf of Mexico to investigate the BP oil spill. Bill Owen would replace Bill Rice as announcer for a year. In April 2005, Jennings announced that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and, as before, other ABC News anchors – mostly consisting of 20/20 co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas and Good Morning America co-anchor Charles Gibson – filled in for him.
On May 8, 2015, Muir delivered the commencement address at Northeastern University in Massachusetts. The practice continued until 1982, when real-time closed captioning was first introduced in the United States by the National Captioning Institute.[5]. The program also introduced a segment called the "Instant Index", a feature appearing as the penultimate segment of each night's broadcast focusing on news stories that are trending on social media, pop culture and entertainment-related stories and viral videos. Muir previously served as the weekend anchor and primary substitute anchor on ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer, subsequently succeeding her on September 1, 2014. Diane Sawyer ABC News: Adrienne Bankert ABC News: Elizabeth Vargas ABC News: Meg Oliver ABC: Robin Roberts "Good Morning America" Anchor: Joohee Cho ABC News: Taina Hernandez ABC World News This Morning: Rebecca Jarvis ABC News: Yunji de Nies ABC News: Betsy Stark ABC News Business Correspondent: Martha … Both men suffered head injuries in the incident, even though they were both wearing body armor and helmets. David Jason Muir (born November 8, 1973) is an American journalist and the anchor of ABC World News Tonight and co-anchor of the ABC News magazine 20/20, part of the news department of the ABC broadcast-television network, based in New York City.
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Ratings slowly climbed to the point where World News Tonight eventually beat both NBC Nightly News and the CBS Evening News, marking the first time ever that ABC had the most-watched network evening newscast. Muir was in Gaza in March 2007 to cover the Hamas coup, reporting from inside the Gaza Strip. The program expanded from 15 to 30 minutes in January 1967, nearly 31⁄2 years after both CBS and NBC had expanded their evening news programs to a half-hour.